to remove a person or thing that is not suitable or good enough, especially from a group or collection
And having to weed out delinquents of all ages and sizes from the Saturday night hop was the straw that broke the camel's back.
It might just help to weed out the parasites from the genuine cases.
Take out the women and kids, weed out the old men, and how many have you still got lett?
We need a process that weeds out corrupt police officers.
weeds out
weeding out
weeded out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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