English verb: weed out | |||
1. | weed out (possession) remove unwanted elements | ||
Samples | The company weeded out the incompetent people. The new law weeds out the old inequities. | ||
Synonyms | comb out | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | get rid of, remove | ||