weed out

1. 1.

   remove unwanted elements

   “The company weeded out the incompetent people”

   “The new law weeds out the old inequities”

   Synonymscomb out

   Broaderget rid of

Questions about weed out

What does weed out mean?

weed out means "remove unwanted elements".

What is another word for weed out?

Close synonyms include comb out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is weed out a common word?

weed out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.