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 | ||