weed
weed /w'iːd/ (weeds weeding weeded)
1 [N-COUNT]
A weed is a wild plant that grows in gardens or fields of crops and prevents the plants that you want from growing properly.
...a garden overgrown with weeds.
2 [N-VAR]
Weed is a plant that grows in water and usually forms a thick floating mass. There are many different kinds of weed.
Large, clogging banks of weed are the only problem.
3 [VERB] V n, V
If you weed an area, you remove the weeds from it.
Caspar was weeding the garden...
Try not to walk on the flower beds when weeding or hoeing.
● weeding [N-UNCOUNT]
She taught me to do the weeding.weed out
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), V n P
If you weed out things or people that are useless or unwanted in a group, you find them and get rid of them.
He is keen to weed out the many applicants he believes may be frauds...
A small group of neo-Nazis have infiltrated the ranks. We must weed them out as soon as possible.
= root out
1 [N-COUNT]
A weed is a wild plant that grows in gardens or fields of crops and prevents the plants that you want from growing properly.
...a garden overgrown with weeds.
2 [N-VAR]
Weed is a plant that grows in water and usually forms a thick floating mass. There are many different kinds of weed.
Large, clogging banks of weed are the only problem.
3 [VERB] V n, V
If you weed an area, you remove the weeds from it.
Caspar was weeding the garden...
Try not to walk on the flower beds when weeding or hoeing.
● weeding [N-UNCOUNT]
She taught me to do the weeding.weed out
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), V n P
If you weed out things or people that are useless or unwanted in a group, you find them and get rid of them.
He is keen to weed out the many applicants he believes may be frauds...
A small group of neo-Nazis have infiltrated the ranks. We must weed them out as soon as possible.
= root out