weed out

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

1. (idiomatic) to remove unwanted elements from a group

   To weed out problem users, watch new people's behavior.

Translations

to remove unwanted elements

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清除 (zh) (qīngchú), 剔除 (zh) (tīchú), 淘汰 (zh) (táotài)

• Finnish: karsia (fi), kitkeä (fi)
• Japanese: 取り除く (torinozoku)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Spanish: desbrozar (es)
• Swedish: rensa bort, gallra bort

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