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ALL meanings of cull

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  • verb cull If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together. 3
  • verb cull To cull animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers. 3
  • verb cull Cull is also a noun. 3
  • verb cull to choose or gather the best or required examples 3
  • verb cull to take out (an animal, esp an inferior one) from a herd 3
  • verb cull to reduce the size of (a herd or flock) by killing a proportion of its members 3
  • verb cull to gather (flowers, fruit, etc) 3
  • verb cull to cease to employ; get rid of 3
  • noun cull the act or product of culling 3
  • noun cull an inferior animal taken from a herd or group 3
  • verb transitive cull to pick out; select 3
  • verb transitive cull to pick out in order to discard or destroy 3
  • verb transitive cull to select and gather (flowers or fruit); pick 3
  • verb transitive cull to select trees to be felled for timber 3
  • verb transitive cull to examine (a collection or group) in order to select desired parts or, esp., to discard or destroy unwanted parts 3
  • noun cull something picked out; esp., something rejected as not being up to standard 3
  • verb with object cull to choose; select; pick. 1
  • verb with object cull to gather the choice things or parts from. 1
  • verb with object cull to collect; gather; pluck. 1
  • noun cull act of culling. 1
  • noun cull something culled, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior. 1
  • noun cull Select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources. 1
  • noun cull killing animals to reduce population 1
  • transitive verb cull animals: kill to reduce population 1
  • abbreviation CULL choose 1
  • noun cull A selection. 0
  • noun cull An organised killing of selected animals. 0
  • noun cull A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen. 0
  • noun cull (Slang) (dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe. 0
  • verb cull To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group). 0
  • verb cull To gather, collect. 0
  • verb cull To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner. 0
  • verb cull (nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc). 0
  • verb cull To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of. 0
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