gallra

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Swedish

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Verb

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gallra (present gallrar, preterite gallrade, supine gallrat, imperative gallra)

  1. (often with a particle like ut (out), bort (away), or i (in)) to remove undesired parts (of something, concrete or abstract); to cull, to winnow, to thin, to weed
    gallra ett träd
    thin a tree
    gallra en trädgård
    weed a garden
    Han blev utgallrad
    He was "sieved out"
    gallra i informationsflödet
    "sieve" the flow of information

Usage notes

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Though possibly etymologically unrelated, likely perceived by most native speakers to be from the notion of shaking through a sieve in the form of a galler (lattice).

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