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unweed

unweed verb: to remove weeds from; to weed.

Verb

unweed (third-person singular simple present unweeds, present participle unweeding, simple past and past participle unweeded)

  1. To remove weeds from; to weed.
    • Then now's the time, while you've a chance Hanging o'er you, To unweed your mind of Ignorance — Look before you !1852, Thomas Forster Ker, Voices for progress, and other poems, page 17
    • He is so diligently engaged in unweeding the soil that he has not given a thought to what he will grow there.1912, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, page 16

Forms of unweed

third-person singular presentunweeds
present participleunweeding
past participleunweeded
pastunweeded

Origin of unweed

From un- + weed.

Questions about unweed

What does unweed mean?
Unweed means to remove weeds from; to weed.
What part of speech is unweed?
Unweed is a verb.
What is the past tense of unweed?
The past tense of unweed is unweeded.

Words near unweed in the dictionary

  1. unwedgeable
  2. unwedged
  3. unwedges
  4. unwedging
  5. unweds
  6. unweed
  7. unweeded
  8. unweeding
  9. unweeds
  10. unweeping
  11. unweeting

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