weed
noun
a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
unweeded
-
a word derived from
weed.
Example Sentences
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He pointed to an unweeded rice-field and with many ceremonious bows pressed the hoe upon Ning as one who confers high honours.
From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah
O Fye! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce
Many were the tears that he shed, and even the garden, the loved garden, went forlorn and unweeded.
From Life of Charles Dickens by Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials
Oh fie! 'tis an unweeded Garden, That grows to Seed; Things rank and gross in Nature, Possess it merely.
From Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) by Anonymous
And yet from amid this excess, as from a rank and unweeded garden, were springing into flower many seeds of modern intellectual enfranchisement, as the achievements of Bruno and his contemporaries witness.
From Porzia by Cale Young Rice
