weed out

weed out

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Verb

weed out (third-person singular simple present weeds out, present participle weeding out, simple past and past participle weeded out)

1. (idiomatic) to remove unwanted elements from a group
   • 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, OCLC 1049068421; republished London: Reprinted for Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, OCLC 7109675:

     In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove,
     And weed out such weeds, as the corn doth not love

   To weed out problem users, watch new people's behavior.

Translations

to remove unwanted elements

Chinese: Mandarin: 清除 (zh) (qīngchú), 剔除 (zh) (tīchú), 淘汰 (zh) (táotài) Finnish: karsia (fi), kitkeä (fi) French: please add this translation if you can German: aussortieren (de) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: disfarsi (di), sbarazzarsi (di), liberarsi (di) Japanese: 取り除く (ja) (torinozoku) Korean: please add this translation if you can Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بژار کردن‎ (bjar kirdin) Latin: runco Polish: wypleniać impf, wyplenić pf Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: desbrozar (es) Swedish: rensa bort, gallra bort

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