Meanings
present singular third person weeds out · participle present weeding out · participle past weeded out · past weeded out
- idiomatictransitiveTo remove (unwanted elements) from a group.
To weed out problem users, watch new people's behavior.
2 more examples
In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove, And weed out such weeds, as the corn doth not love
1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC“I like the question, ‘Where can I take you/where will you take me on our first date?’ because that’s the point of the app and you’re already both attracted to each other. It weeds out people who aren’t actually interested in meeting up and are using the app passively,” Hoggard Wagley says.
2023 March 6, Alexis Jones, Megan Schaltegger, “These Tinder Conversation Starters Actually Work, According To Dating Experts”, in Women's Health, archived from the original on 04 May 2025
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 清除, 剔除
- 清除 (qīngchú)to remove unwanted elements
- 剔除 (tīchú)to remove unwanted elements
- 淘汰 (táotài)to remove unwanted elements
Finnish karsia, kitkeä
- karsiato remove unwanted elements
- kitkeäto remove unwanted elements
German aussortieren
- aussortierento remove unwanted elements
Italian disfarsi, sbarazzarsi
- disfarsito remove unwanted elements
- sbarazzarsito remove unwanted elements
- liberarsito remove unwanted elements
Japanese 取り除く
- 取り除く (torinozoku)to remove unwanted elements
Latin runco, ēruncō
- runcoto remove unwanted elements
- ēruncōto remove unwanted elements
Polish wypleniać, wyplenić
- wypleniaćto remove unwanted elements
- wyplenićto remove unwanted elements
Russian отсеять
- отсеять (otsejatʹ)to remove unwanted elements
Spanish desbrozar, escardar
- desbrozarto remove unwanted elements
- escardarto remove unwanted elements
- sallarto remove unwanted elements
Swedish rensa bort, gallra bort
- rensa bortto remove unwanted elements
- gallra bortto remove unwanted elements
Cite this entry
weed out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weed%20out
“weed out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weed%20out. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “weed out,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weed%20out.
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