- present tense form of weed (3rd person singular).
weeds
Britishplural noun
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Also called: widow's weeds. a widow's black mourning clothes
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obsolete any clothing
Etymology
Origin of weeds
pl of weed ²
Example Sentences
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You will need to get in the weeds to understand what you will pay for your medications, including running them through the drug-checker tool on Medicare.gov.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The other key is making sure he’s getting into the weeds on what the firm is building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Many residents have turned to cooking garden weeds as they have run out of the vegetables they managed to grow over the summer, she explains.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The LCD screens outside the Denver Nuggets basketball arena continue to flicker, although weeds and wolves have overrun the fast-food joints in a bit of postapocalyptic product placement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
They pull weeds out of the ground and gobble them up.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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