verb
- past tense and past participle of weed; removed unwanted plants from a garden or area
- removed unwanted or inferior items or people from a group
Usage: often used with ‘out’
Examples
- She weeded the vegetable garden yesterday morning.
- The flower bed looked much better after it was weeded.
- He weeded out the damaged books from the collection.
- The hiring manager weeded through hundreds of applications.
- They weeded the candidates down to five finalists.
- The garden path was carefully weeded and maintained.