weed out

Verb
Synonyms: comb out

Open English WordNet

Verb (1)

  1. remove unwanted elements“The company weeded out the incompetent people”“The new law weeds out the old inequities”Synonyms: comb outMore general get rid of, remove

Related words comb-out noun

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Weed out transitive verb

to selectively remove; same as weed{2}, transitive verb; — of things that are useless or harmful.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors

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