unweed

English

Etymology

un- +‎ weed

Verb

unweed (third-person singular simple present unweeds, present participle unweeding, simple past and past participle unweeded)

1. To remove weeds from; to weed.
   • 1852, Thomas Forster Ker, Voices for progress, and other poems, page 17:

     Then now's the time, while you've a chance Hanging o'er you, To unweed your mind of Ignorance — Look before you !

   • 1912, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, page 16:

     He is so diligently engaged in unweeding the soil that he has not given a thought to what he will grow there.

   • 2008, Jeffrey M. Heath, The Creator as Critic and Other Writings by E.M. Forster, →ISBN, page 347:

     We need to cultivate our own gardens, to “unweed” our own “seed-beds” before we presume to colonize the world.