weed out

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verb

remove unwanted elements (Freq. 2)
- The company weeded out the incompetent people
- The new law weeds out the old inequities
• Syn:
comb out
• Derivationally related forms:
comb-out (for: comb out)
• Hypernyms:
get rid of, remove
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s something