Meaning & use
Weeded
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Removed unwanted plants from a garden or area, or eliminated undesirable elements from a group.
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She weeded the vegetable patch every Saturday morning.
The committee weeded out weak applications before the interview stage.
A note on using this word
The figurative sense of "weeded out," meaning to remove inferior or unwanted items from a group, has been common in English since at least the 16th century.
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