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weed out

weed out verb: to remove (unwanted elements) from a group.

Verb

weed out (third-person singular simple present weeds out, present participle weeding out, simple past and past participle weeded out)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To remove (unwanted elements) from a group.
    • To weed out problem users, watch new people's behavior.
    • In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove,
      And weed out such weeds, as the corn doth not love1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...

weed out meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

weed out in Tamil

களைபறி, தேவையற்றதை நீக்கு

weed out in Urdu

خرابی دور کہنا

weed out in Malayalam

something out separate out, someone out separate out, isolate
കളപറിക്കുക, ഒറ്റപ്പെടുത്തുക, പോച്ച പറിക്കുക, വേർപെടുത്തുക, അകറ്റുക, നീക്കംചെയ്ക

Forms of weed out

third-person singular presentweeds out
present participleweeding out
past participleweeded out
pastweeded out

Words formed from weed out

Questions about weed out

What does weed out mean?
Weed out means to remove (unwanted elements) from a group.
What is weed out in Tamil?
Weed out in Tamil is களைபறி, தேவையற்றதை நீக்கு. See Weed out meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is weed out?
Weed out is a verb.
What is the past tense of weed out?
The past tense of weed out is weeded out.

Words near weed out in the dictionary

  1. weed killer
  2. weed killers
  3. weed man
  4. weed men
  5. weed number
  6. weed out
  7. weed torch
  8. weed torches
  9. weed tree
  10. weed trees
  11. weed whacker

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: weed out (page history and authors); weed out (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); weed out (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); weed out (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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