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weed out

/wiːd aʊt/

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verb

/wiːd aʊt/B2formal
  • ruФразовый глагол, используемый для обозначения действия по удалению или устранению нежелательных или некачественных элементов, людей или вещей из группы.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of removing or eliminating unwanted or inferior elements, people, or things from a group.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

  1. Remove unwanted elementsinformal

    To remove or eliminate unwanted, inferior, or unsuitable people or things from a group.

    ruОтсеивать

    • The manager decided to weed out underperforming employees.
    • We need to weed out the errors from the report.
    • The selection process helps weed out unqualified candidates.

    Synonymsculleliminateeradicateextirpatefilter outpurgeremoveroot outscreen outstamp out

    Antonymsadmitincludekeepretain

Forms
  • weeded out past participle
  • weeded out past simple
  • weeding out present participle
  • weeds out third person singular

Base verbweed

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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