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Meaning of 'weed' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Weed [ n.]
- A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
- An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
- A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
- Underbrush; low shrubs.
- 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.
- Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
- An animal unfit to breed from.
- Tobacco, or a cigar.
2 . Weed [ v. t.]
- To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
- To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
- To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
- To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

Meaning of 'weed' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . weed [ v]
Meaning (1):
- clear of weeds
Example in sentence:
  • weed the garden

Nearby Words:

wee weech-elm weeded weeder weedery weeding weeding-rhim weedless weedy week

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