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- [weed]
- /wid/
- /wiːd/
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- [weed]
- /wid/
Definitions of weed word
- noun weed Thurlow [thur-loh] /ˈθɜr loʊ/ (Show IPA), 1797–1882, U.S. journalist and politician. 1
- verb with object weed to free from weeds or troublesome plants; root out weeds from: to weed a garden. 1
- verb with object weed to root out or remove (a weed or weeds), as from a garden (often followed by out): to weed out crab grass from a lawn. 1
- verb with object weed to remove as being undesirable, inefficient, or superfluous (often followed by out): to weed out inexperienced players. 1
- verb with object weed to rid (something) of undesirable or superfluous elements. 1
- verb without object weed to remove weeds or the like. 1
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Origin of weed
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English wede, Old English wēod; cognate with Old Saxon wiod weed, Middle Dutch wiet fern
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Weed
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
weed popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
weed usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for weed
verb weed
- hoe — Richard, 1812–86, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of printing-press equipment.
- tidy — neat, orderly, or trim, as in appearance or dress: a tidy room; a tidy person.
- pick over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- clear — Something that is clear is easy to understand, see, or hear.
- scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
noun weed
- wild flower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
- foreigner — a person not native to or naturalized in the country or jurisdiction under consideration; alien.
- immigrant — a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.
- intruder — to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
- migrant — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
Antonyms for weed
verb weed
- fix — to repair; mend.
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- sew — to ground (a vessel) at low tide (sometimes fol by up).
- deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
noun weed
- local — low-cal.
- national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- citizen — Someone who is a citizen of a particular country is legally accepted as belonging to that country.
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
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