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- [weed]
- /wid/
- /wiːd/
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- [weed]
- /wid/
Definitions of weeds word
- noun weeds a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop. 1
- noun weeds any undesirable or troublesome plant, especially one that grows profusely where it is not wanted: The vacant lot was covered with weeds. 1
- noun weeds Informal. a cigarette or cigar. 1
- noun weeds Slang. a marijuana cigarette. 1
- noun weeds a thin, ungainly person or animal. 1
- noun weeds a wretched or useless animal, especially a horse unfit for racing or breeding purposes. 1
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Origin of weeds
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English wede, Old English wǣd, (ge)wǣde garment, clothing; cognate with Old Saxon wād, gewādi, Old High German wāt, gewāti clothing; cf. wadmal
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Parts of speech for Weeds
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
weeds popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% 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".
weeds usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for weeds
noun weeds
- sunday best — Sunday clothes.
- accouterment — an accoutering or being accoutered
- apparel — Apparel means clothes, especially formal clothes worn on an important occasion.
- array — An array of different things or people is a large number or wide range of them.
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
verb weeds
- haul — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- pick — to cast (a shuttle).
- pluck — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- remove — to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
- rip — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
Antonyms for weeds
noun weeds
- 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.
verb weeds
- 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.
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