weed
noun
a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
weeded
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past participleof weed.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof weed.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
weednouna valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
Example Sentences
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That requirement has weeded out a lot of bad candidates for our investments.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
Khamenei leaves behind no apparent successor, largely by design, as he weeded out clerics that could rival his authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
The long biotech winter cleaned up the sector: Many biotech companies that went public too early during the COVID-inspired biotech frenzy got weeded out by the sector’s subsequent weakness, Renna says.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
Patrick McNicholas, who co-counsels cases with the firm, said the lawsuits were weeded out as part of the firm’s vetting process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
He confirmed what I had suspected, that these meerkats had gone for so many generations without predators that any notion of flight distance, of flight, of plain fear, had been genetically weeded out of them.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
