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weed out
verb
- tr, adverb to separate out, remove, or eliminate (anything unwanted)
to weed out troublesome students
Idioms and Phrases
Eliminate as inferior, unsuited, or unwanted, as in She was asked to weed out the unqualified applicants . This expression transfers removing weeds from a garden to removing unwanted elements from other enterprises. [First half of 1500s]Example Sentences
George’s mission is to weed out the traitor in the house, even if it means putting a bullet in his beloved spouse.
Elon Musk is leading this effort to drastically reduce the federal workforce and weed out what he sees as taxpayers' money being wasted.
"We want to weed out the corruption," Trump said.
"This will weed out the most corrupt and least competent."
He’s also threatened to “weed out†scientists who believe in climate change.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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