'Weed out' definitions:
Definition of 'weed out'
From: WordNet
verb
Remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities" [syn: weed out, comb out]
Definition of 'Weed out'
From: GCIDE
- Weed out \Weed out\, v. t. to selectively remove; same as weed[2], v. t.; -- of things that are useless or harmful. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'weed out'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- avulse,
- backset,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- chuck,
- clear,
- clear away,
- clear out,
- clear the decks,
- cultivate,
- culture,
- cut,
- cut out,
- delve,
- deport,
- deracinate,
- dig,
- dig out,
- dig up,
- disentangle,
- dispose of,
- draw,
- draw out,
- dredge,
- dredge up,
- dress,
- eject,
- elide,
- eliminate,
- eradicate,
- evolve,
- evulse,
- excavate,
- excise,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- exsect,
- extract,
- extricate,
- fallow,
- fertilize,
- force,
- get out,
- get quit of,
- get rid of,
- get shut of,
- gouge out,
- grub up,
- harrow,
- hoe,
- liquidate,
- list,
- mine,
- mulch,
- outlaw,
- pick out,
- plow,
- pluck out,
- pluck up,
- prune,
- pull,
- pull out,
- pull up,
- purge,
- quarry,
- rake,
- rake out,
- remove,
- rip out,
- root out,
- root up,
- spade,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- take out,
- tear out,
- thin,
- thin out,
- throw over,
- throw overboard,
- till,
- till the soil,
- unearth,
- unravel,
- uproot,
- weed,
- withdraw,
- work,
- wrest out
Words containing 'Weed out'
- Weed,
- Weeded,
- Weeding,
- weeds,
- Dane's weed,
- Dyer's weed,
- Farrow weed,
- Flix weed,
- Fuller's weed,
- Goat weed,
- Gulf weed,
- Jamestown weed,
- Jimson weed,
- Licorice weed,
- Mermaid weed,
- Parrot weed,
- Pestilence weed,
- Pickerel weed,
- Ramsted weed,
- Rattlesnake weed,
- Styptic weed,
- Weed hook,
- Weed, CA,
- Weeding chisel,
- Weeding forceps,
- Weeding fork,
- Weeding hook,
- Weeding iron,
- Weeding tongs,
- ague weed,
- alligator weed,
- bishop's weed,
- blue weed,
- butterfly weed,
- cancer weed,
- consumption weed,
- crazy weed,
- devil's weed,
- dill weed,
- french weed,
- ghost weed,
- horsefly weed,
- klammath weed,
- loco weed,
- pineapple weed,
- polecat weed,
- rattle weed,
- rheumatism weed,
- scorpion weed,
- soap weed,
- stinking weed,
- trumpet weed,
- turpentine weed,
- weed killer,
- widow's weeds,
- Bishop's-weed,
- English-weed,
- Mock bishop's weed,
- Weeding-rhim,
- Willow-weed,
- Yaw-weed,
- broom-weed,
- frost-weed,
- pearl-weed,
- pine-weed,
- prickle-weed,
- rabbit-weed,
- skunk-weed,
- soap-weed,
- stemless golden weed,
- tick-weed,
- turpentine camphor weed,
- weed-whacker,
- Joe-Pye weed,
- mad-dog weed,
- spotted joe-pye weed