"weed out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-weed out.ogg [Australia] Forms: weeds out [present, singular, third-person], weeding out [participle, present], weeded out [participle, past], weeded out [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: idiomatic Derived forms: weedout [noun] Translations (to remove unwanted elements): بژار کردن (bjar kirdin) (Central Kurdish), 清除 (qīngchú) (Chinese Mandarin), 剔除 (tīchú) (Chinese Mandarin), 淘汰 (táotài) (Chinese Mandarin), karsia (Finnish), kitkeä (Finnish), aussortieren (German), disfarsi (english: di) (Italian), sbarazzarsi (english: di) (Italian), liberarsi (english: di) (Italian), 取り除く (torinozoku) (Japanese), runco (Latin), wypleniać [imperfective] (Polish), wyplenić [perfective] (Polish), desbrozar (Spanish), rensa bort (Swedish), gallra bort (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to remove unwanted elements",
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      "sense": "to remove unwanted elements",
      "word": "liberarsi"
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      "roman": "torinozoku",
      "sense": "to remove unwanted elements",
      "word": "取り除く"
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      "roman": "bjar kirdin",
      "sense": "to remove unwanted elements",
      "word": "بژار کردن"
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      "sense": "to remove unwanted elements",
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      "sense": "to remove unwanted elements",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "to remove unwanted elements",
      "word": "desbrozar"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "to remove unwanted elements",
      "word": "rensa bort"
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      "sense": "to remove unwanted elements",
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