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WEED OUT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove unwanted elements

Example:

The new law weeds out the old inequities

Synonyms:

comb out; weed out

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "weed out" is one way to...):

get rid of; remove (dispose of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

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