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weeded out

weeded out is the simple past and past participle of weed out.

Meaning of weed out

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.

Questions about weeded out

What is weeded out the simple past and past participle of?
Weeded out is the simple past and past participle of weed out.

Words near weeded out in the dictionary

  1. weedeaters
  2. weedeatin'
  3. weedeating
  4. weedeats
  5. weeded
  6. weeded out
  7. Weeden
  8. Weedens
  9. weeder
  10. weeder class
  11. weeder classes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weeded out (page history and authors); weed out (page history and authors). 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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