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weeding out

weeding out is the present participle and gerund 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 weeding out

What is weeding out the present participle and gerund of?
Weeding out is the present participle and gerund of weed out.

Words near weeding out in the dictionary

  1. weedier
  2. weediest
  3. weedily
  4. weediness
  5. weeding
  6. weeding out
  7. weedings
  8. weediquette
  9. weedish
  10. Weedjie
  11. Weedjies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weeding 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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