weed out

• Verbo frasal usado para indicar a ação de remover ou eliminar elementos, pessoas ou coisas indesejadas ou de má qualidade de um grupo.

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

incontável · transitivo · phrasal, separável

1. Remove unwanted elementsinformal

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

   Eliminar os indesejados

   • 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.

   Sinônimosculleliminateeradicateextirpatefilter outpurgeremoveroot outscreen outstamp out

   Antônimosadmitincludekeepretain

Verbo baseweed