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unweed en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + weed.

Meanings

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:
   • We need to cultivate our own gardens, to “unweed” our own “seed-beds” before we presume to colonize the world. 2008, Jeffrey M. Heath, The Creator as Critic and Other Writings by E.M. Forster, →ISBN, page 347:
   • 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:

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