weed

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Synonyms 1.2.1.2 Derived terms 1.2.1.3 Translations 1.2.1.4 See also 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.3.1.2 See also 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Translations 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Verb 1.6 References

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /wi:d/
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  Rhymes: -iːd

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English wēod.

[edit] Noun

weed (plural weeds)

1. (countable) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

   If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.

2. (countable) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.
3. Short for duckweed
4. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
5. (obsolete, uncountable, slang) Tobacco.
6. (obsolete, countable) A cigar.
7. (obsolete, countable) A horse unfit to breed from.
8. (countable, British, informal) A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
9. (countable, Scottish) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
10. (uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
11. (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

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• See also Wikisaurus:marijuana

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• grow like a weed
• weeds

[edit] Etymology 2

From Old English wēodian.

[edit] Verb

to weed (third-person singular simple present weeds, present participle weeding, simple past and past participle weeded)

1. To remove weeds (unwanted vegetation) from (a cultivated area).

   I weeded my flower bed.

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• weed out

[edit] Etymology 3

From Old English wǣd < Proto-Germanic. Compare Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad.

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weed (plural weeds)

1. (archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
2. (archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

   • 1819, These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim. — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

3. (archaic) widow's weeds Female mourning apparel

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[edit] Etymology 4

From the verb wee.

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weed

1. Simple past tense and past participle of wee.

[edit] References

• weed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “weed” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.