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weed out en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To remove (unwanted elements) from a group.
   • “I like the question, ‘Where can I take you/where will you take me on our first date?’ because that’s the point of the app and you’re already both attracted to each other. It weeds out people who aren’t actually interested in meeting up and are using the app passively,” Hoggard Wagley says. 2023 March 6, Alexis Jones, Megan Schaltegger, “These Tinder Conversation Starters Actually Work, According To Dating Experts”, in Women's Health, archived from the original on 04 May 2025:
   • 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 love 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

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Translations (21)

ckb بژار کردن (to remove unwanted elements) · es sallar (to remove unwanted elements) · fi karsia (to remove unwanted elements) · cmn 淘汰 (to remove unwanted elements) · cmn 剔除 (to remove unwanted elements) · la ēruncō (to remove unwanted elements) · ru отсеять (to remove unwanted elements) · fi kitkeä (to remove unwanted elements) · de aussortieren (to remove unwanted elements) · it liberarsi (to remove unwanted elements) · sv gallra bort (to remove unwanted elements) · es escardar (to remove unwanted elements) · es desbrozar (to remove unwanted elements) · la runco (to remove unwanted elements) · pl wypleniać (to remove unwanted elements) · it sbarazzarsi (to remove unwanted elements) · cmn 清除 (to remove unwanted elements) · it disfarsi (to remove unwanted elements) · ja 取り除く (to remove unwanted elements) · sv rensa bort (to remove unwanted elements) · pl wyplenić (to remove unwanted elements)