Search Result for "weed out":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. remove unwanted elements;
- Example: "The company weeded out the incompetent people"
- Example: "The new law weeds out the old inequities"
[syn: weed out, comb out]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Weed out \Weed out\, v. t.
   to selectively remove; same as weed[2], v. t.; -- of things
   that are useless or harmful.
   [PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

weed out
    v 1: remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the
         incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old
         inequities" [syn: weed out, comb out]