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
Eventually, AI holdouts will either get onboard or get weeded out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
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
The design process also weeded out anything that looked too similar to current antibiotics.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
Some built new mounds or maintained the old; others hauled wood for fuel and houses or carried water in leather pouches or weeded the maize fields with stone hoes.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
