Definition of weed in English:

weed

nounwiːdwid

1A wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.
杂草，野草
keep the seedlings clear of weeds
Example sentencesExamples
- There are several small varieties that grow wild as weeds in North America.
- Write down which plants were infected with diseases and where the weeds grew most.
- But Mr Merritt said horsetail could be a troublesome weed in any crop.
- It doesn't look at if it's been used for some time, as a small jungle of bushes, nettles and weeds have grown up around it.
- They hide during the day under mulch, plant debris, rocks, boards, weeds, and ground covers.
- The lawn was well-kept, but still a bit wild, with weeds and poorly pruned brushes lining the walkway up the hill.
- Just like our garden plants, weeds have certain preferences for growing conditions.
- A site that will not grow other plants and weeds or has some type of soil problem will probably not be ideal for wildflowers.
- He says that the group had been working hard to improve the area around the sawmill dam by tackling the jungle of weeds, brambles and nettles that had grown up through years of neglect.
- The best time to eliminate weeds and grass is the season before you plan to plant your garden.
- Raised on a farm in the eastern part of North Carolina, Jo grew up pulling weeds in her mother's cutting garden.
- Spread wheat straw mulch over your garden in February to keep weeds at bay.
- Mike already has a layer of wood chip mulch in place around his plants to keep down weeds and conserve moisture.
- Nests are open cups made of weeds, grass, plant fibers, and moss, with a lining of fur and feathers.
- Typically, herbicides are applied only to the strip of ground directly under the vine, and weeds growing between the rows are controlled by cultivation or mowing.
- Given the right conditions many will grow like weeds, seeding freely around.
- The courtyard is cluttered with potted plants, half of them dead or dying, with weeds growing around the pots and covering most of the small yard.
- Honeysuckle will quickly cover everything in its path, choking out weeds as it grows.
- Clear all the weeds and grass from the area you intend to cover to prevent them from growing up through the mulch.
- This will help prevent weeds from growing, and additionally will feed your soil slowly over time.
1. 1.1mass noun Any wild plant growing in salt or fresh water.
  水生植物
  at the far side of the beach the rocks began, some humped with brown weed
  Example sentencesExamples
  It has been listed as one of the 100 worst invasive alien species in the world, and it is considered the second most serious weed in the South Pacific.
  The weed impedes water's natural flow and can destroy native communities of aquatic plants and animals.
  I woke to find Graham out in the garden carrying out some much needed maintenance on the fish pond, topping it up with fresh water and pulling out some weed.
  Move over hydrilla, there's a bigger, meaner invasive aquatic weed in town.
  Aquatic weeds have also grown to epidemic proportions.
  At the moment there is deeper water and reasonable floating weed cover in one area, so the Jacanas have not left.
  From a distance, this appears to be the mottled brown of old brick, but as I get closer I see that there is a coating of fine brown weed.
  But, no, they just sat deep in the bottom, sheltering under the great mass of oxygenating weed that's grown from three strands in less than a year, and gulped.
  The west bank is more sandy and shallow with weed growing, and the opposite bank more rocky and deeper.
  This weed can grow in ten to fifteen feet of water or more from top to bottom and seems to be impossible to fish in.
  By now summer is under way, the weed is growing and all species of fish are feeding well.
  If more effort were put into ensuring rivers and watercourses were properly dredged and cleared of weed and vegetation, it might have helped to contain the water, he said.
  There's plenty of weed growing around them, and although not particularly pleasant to look at, among its folds you will see plenty of hovering juvenile pike.
2. 1.2informal mass noun Cannabis.
  〈非正式〉大麻
  Example sentencesExamples
  By no means am I condoning the use of any drug; I'm just trying to get you to realise that there are far worse things than smoking a bit of weed.
  The way I see it is this: lots of people say that smoking weed, or whatever you want to call it, leads to stronger drugs.
  You may have heard it called marijuana, weed or hash but it is still cannabis, a natural drug that comes from a plant.
  It went on like that for a few months until it got to the point where we were truanting from school every day and smoking weed.
  I suppose when you're out of your mind on cheap cider, homegrown weed and crack cocaine you might enjoy muck like that.
  The chap sat next to us had black glasses on and was smoking weed.
  I stopped smoking weed after that for a couple of months and started to get drunk again.
  He never touched weed, cocaine or anything else.
  Last night, I also smoked weed for the first time in a year.
  It was very refreshing to walk into coffee shops, buy some weed, borrow their bong and sit down and have a nice smoke.
  I know absolutely no heroin addicts and I know plenty of people who smoke weed.
  On Villa Road there are kids selling crack, weed and cocaine.
  For one, the average youth doesn't see smoking weed as a ‘rebellion’ against society any more.
  She is in her sixties, and without smoking weed, she has difficulty moving.
  All the research means very little when a large proportion of the population have decided that they like to smoke a bit of weed.
  I had no trouble stopping taking weed and after one farewell joint, gave up.
  99% of the people I know have tried or smoke weed and not one is an addict on any other drug.
  Had he not supplied weed, none of us would ever have spoken to him.
  Still who needs weed when you've got coffee and nicotine?
  But at the point where most of my friends went from weed or hash to LSD or ecstasy, I stopped smoking.
3. 1.3the weedinformal Tobacco.
  smokers are advised to eat more fruit, as the weed can increase the risk of gastric cancer
  Example sentencesExamples
  Do addicts of the demon weed, tobacco, experience increased pleasure from life as a result of smoking tobacco?
  But the first time these two came into contact with each other, they had to share the spotlight with, yes, the weed, tobacco.
2British informal A contemptibly feeble person.
he thought party games were for weeds and wets
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘I have always been a bit of a weed, to be honest, and I am always being told to try weight training and go to a gym,’ he said.
- ‘Well, some thought he was a bit of a weed, but he doesn't come around anymore,’ he quipped.
Synonyms
coward, weakling, milksop, milquetoast, namby-pamby, crybaby, baby
3informal A leggy, loosely built horse.
〈非正式〉（长腿）瘦弱的马
my tiny bay weed could jump like a stag

verbwiːdwid

[with object]

1Remove unwanted plants from (an area of ground)
清除…的杂草
I was weeding a flower bed
我当时在清除花坛的杂草。
Example sentencesExamples
- Then today I was weeding the bed in front of my house and lifted a mop of variegated grass to see a toad looking at me from a hollow he'd made in the shade of my porch.
- She weeded fastidiously, removing the plants and roots before they came to maturity, and preparing compost from them.
- Weeding the entire garden would take a single person hours, if not days.
- The girls have weeded a neighbor's yard, done some dog sitting and worked at extra chores around the house.
- The students were involved in weeding a section of the land, before replanting natural plants and trees.
- She would be out milking the cows, nipping the turnips, weeding the carrots.
- The group cleared and cleaned the pond, weeded the area, pruned the shrubs, fertilised the soil and planted out bedding plants.
- I'd worked through worse weather weeding the fields and it wasn't that cold.
- She weeded my front garden and helped me put up the rotary washing line in the back garden.
- Fields are generally tiny, and you sometimes see a man ploughing one with a tractor, or a woman weeding one with a mattock.
- Once an area is weeded, a deep mulch will go some way towards stopping weeds from reappearing.
- For best crops, weed and water regularly and consistently.
- After planting, each plot was weeded periodically.
- Maureen planted many colourful plants, weeded, clipped and pruned the area so that it was a delight to the eye at Easter.
- I weeded the garden and picked produce for Jan to take to the Saturday market when she returned.
- Women and children plant, weed, and harvest most food crops.
- They were also asking businesses, shops, etc to weed the area outside their premises every morning.
- As we weeded the lettuce patch one day recently, you took satisfaction in likening us to a pair of police getting rid of bad guys.
- There would be no cane planted, weeded, cut, or ground without some form of compliance from the workers themselves.
- Any time spent weeding this month will save twice as much time later in the season.
2weed someone/something outRemove an inferior or unwanted component of a group or collection.
we must raise the level of research and weed out the poorest work
我们必须提高研究水平，把质量最差的工作剔除。
Example sentencesExamples
- It would also fund the hiring of 10,000 new Department of Homeland Security personnel dedicated to weeding illegal immigrants out of the workforce and an additional 1,000 for detecting immigration fraud.
- Through rigorous screening - and I mean rigorous - and gut instinct, you can weed these people out.
- Incompetent and dangerous laboratories would be weeded out and further tragedies like these minimized.
- And they have applauded the role of the local community in helping the police to weed out the troublemakers.
- Corruption is something that has to be weeded out of our system.
- All moderating influences within the party have been weeded out.
- Lynch says that while some agencies are badly run, he makes checks to ensure unsuitable candidates are weeded out.
- As Sheehan notes, there's a reason why Eisenhower was so intolerant of failure and so ruthless about weeding it out.
- Of course there is no easy way of weeding them out.
- Sure, some people will waste time with it, but a company should be able to figure out who's not doing their job properly and weed them out.
Synonyms
isolate, separate out, set apart, put to one side, divide, segregate, sort out, sift out, winnow out, filter out, sieve
eliminate, get rid of, remove, dispense with, shed
informal dump, lose

Derivatives

weeder

nounˈwiːdəˈwidər

Propane weeders, which kill plants by searing them with a flame, should be used with extreme caution.
Example sentencesExamples
- As the plants mature, wire weeders can be run extremely close to the cotton's woody stalks without doing harm, allowing thorough cultivation.
- Many organic farmers use flame weeders as an alternative to herbicides.
- We decided to get these fields planted as quickly as possible using only tine weeders for weed control.
- For larger weeds, water thoroughly, then use a hand weeder to pop them out of the ground.
- My sister and I liked to eat the vegetables but we dreaded the planting because we were the weeders.

weedless

adjective

The creeklet ran clear; every pebble on the weedless bottom was etched in moonlight.
Example sentencesExamples
- Every one of those fields is absolutely weedless; the GM giant has seen to that.
- Their world in general seemed in disrepair - a beautiful, tangled waste of bushes and flowers; a long-neglected and yet weedless garden.
- It was a place where sanity prevailed; a place of full employment; conventional white, white-collar corporate families; clean streets; well-kept weedless lawns; neatly trimmed hedges.
- His garden was nearly weedless with straight, clean rows aligned like soldiers.

Origin

Old English wēod (noun), wēodian (verb), of unknown origin; related to Dutch wieden (verb).

Rhymes

accede, bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, concede, creed, deed, Eid, exceed, feed, Gide, God speed, greed, he'd, heed, impede, interbreed, intercede, Jamshid, knead, lead, mead, Mede, meed, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, plead, proceed, read, rede, reed, Reid, retrocede, screed, secede, seed, she'd, speed, stampede, steed, succeed, supersede, Swede, tweed, weak-kneed, we'd

Definition of weed in US English:

weed

nounwidwēd

1A wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.
杂草，野草
Example sentencesExamples
- Honeysuckle will quickly cover everything in its path, choking out weeds as it grows.
- A site that will not grow other plants and weeds or has some type of soil problem will probably not be ideal for wildflowers.
- Spread wheat straw mulch over your garden in February to keep weeds at bay.
- The courtyard is cluttered with potted plants, half of them dead or dying, with weeds growing around the pots and covering most of the small yard.
- Given the right conditions many will grow like weeds, seeding freely around.
- He says that the group had been working hard to improve the area around the sawmill dam by tackling the jungle of weeds, brambles and nettles that had grown up through years of neglect.
- Mike already has a layer of wood chip mulch in place around his plants to keep down weeds and conserve moisture.
- This will help prevent weeds from growing, and additionally will feed your soil slowly over time.
- There are several small varieties that grow wild as weeds in North America.
- Just like our garden plants, weeds have certain preferences for growing conditions.
- The best time to eliminate weeds and grass is the season before you plan to plant your garden.
- It doesn't look at if it's been used for some time, as a small jungle of bushes, nettles and weeds have grown up around it.
- Write down which plants were infected with diseases and where the weeds grew most.
- Typically, herbicides are applied only to the strip of ground directly under the vine, and weeds growing between the rows are controlled by cultivation or mowing.
- Raised on a farm in the eastern part of North Carolina, Jo grew up pulling weeds in her mother's cutting garden.
- Clear all the weeds and grass from the area you intend to cover to prevent them from growing up through the mulch.
- But Mr Merritt said horsetail could be a troublesome weed in any crop.
- The lawn was well-kept, but still a bit wild, with weeds and poorly pruned brushes lining the walkway up the hill.
- Nests are open cups made of weeds, grass, plant fibers, and moss, with a lining of fur and feathers.
- They hide during the day under mulch, plant debris, rocks, boards, weeds, and ground covers.
1. 1.1 Any wild plant growing in salt or fresh water.
  水生植物
  Example sentencesExamples
  At the moment there is deeper water and reasonable floating weed cover in one area, so the Jacanas have not left.
  From a distance, this appears to be the mottled brown of old brick, but as I get closer I see that there is a coating of fine brown weed.
  This weed can grow in ten to fifteen feet of water or more from top to bottom and seems to be impossible to fish in.
  I woke to find Graham out in the garden carrying out some much needed maintenance on the fish pond, topping it up with fresh water and pulling out some weed.
  If more effort were put into ensuring rivers and watercourses were properly dredged and cleared of weed and vegetation, it might have helped to contain the water, he said.
  By now summer is under way, the weed is growing and all species of fish are feeding well.
  Aquatic weeds have also grown to epidemic proportions.
  The weed impedes water's natural flow and can destroy native communities of aquatic plants and animals.
  The west bank is more sandy and shallow with weed growing, and the opposite bank more rocky and deeper.
  Move over hydrilla, there's a bigger, meaner invasive aquatic weed in town.
  But, no, they just sat deep in the bottom, sheltering under the great mass of oxygenating weed that's grown from three strands in less than a year, and gulped.
  It has been listed as one of the 100 worst invasive alien species in the world, and it is considered the second most serious weed in the South Pacific.
  There's plenty of weed growing around them, and although not particularly pleasant to look at, among its folds you will see plenty of hovering juvenile pike.
2. 1.2informal Marijuana.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He wasn't always pumping his body full of alcohol, weed, cocaine, painkillers or steroids.
  Problem is, I've got no weed until it grows and gets sticky.
  His job will be to procure the marijuana and ensure a steady supply of quality weed.
  It came out after the shooting that he happened to grow weed as well and within minutes the entire tragedy got turned into a debate about legalizing marijuana.
  We go to a nearby coffee house, share a bag of weed, have coffee, and get to know each other.
  To them, marijuana (also called weed because of its ability to thrive in adverse conditions), is not a drug but a herb.
  His breath smelled strongly of fresh weed, a smell she knew only too well as her own brother came home every night smelling just like it.
  I tell her that no one has died from smoking weed, and that people die of alcohol every day.
  For instance, did you know that people plant weed in the forest there?
3. 1.3the weedinformal Tobacco.
  Example sentencesExamples
  But the first time these two came into contact with each other, they had to share the spotlight with, yes, the weed, tobacco.
  Do addicts of the demon weed, tobacco, experience increased pleasure from life as a result of smoking tobacco?
4. 1.4informal A leggy, loosely built horse.
  〈非正式〉（长腿）瘦弱的马

verbwidwēd

[with object]

1Remove unwanted plants from (an area of ground or the plants cultivated in it)
清除…的杂草
I was weeding a flower bed
我当时在清除花坛的杂草。
Example sentencesExamples
- Fields are generally tiny, and you sometimes see a man ploughing one with a tractor, or a woman weeding one with a mattock.
- I weeded the garden and picked produce for Jan to take to the Saturday market when she returned.
- The girls have weeded a neighbor's yard, done some dog sitting and worked at extra chores around the house.
- She weeded fastidiously, removing the plants and roots before they came to maturity, and preparing compost from them.
- She would be out milking the cows, nipping the turnips, weeding the carrots.
- Then today I was weeding the bed in front of my house and lifted a mop of variegated grass to see a toad looking at me from a hollow he'd made in the shade of my porch.
- They were also asking businesses, shops, etc to weed the area outside their premises every morning.
- As we weeded the lettuce patch one day recently, you took satisfaction in likening us to a pair of police getting rid of bad guys.
- I'd worked through worse weather weeding the fields and it wasn't that cold.
- The students were involved in weeding a section of the land, before replanting natural plants and trees.
- She weeded my front garden and helped me put up the rotary washing line in the back garden.
- For best crops, weed and water regularly and consistently.
- The group cleared and cleaned the pond, weeded the area, pruned the shrubs, fertilised the soil and planted out bedding plants.
- Any time spent weeding this month will save twice as much time later in the season.
- Women and children plant, weed, and harvest most food crops.
- Once an area is weeded, a deep mulch will go some way towards stopping weeds from reappearing.
- After planting, each plot was weeded periodically.
- Maureen planted many colourful plants, weeded, clipped and pruned the area so that it was a delight to the eye at Easter.
- Weeding the entire garden would take a single person hours, if not days.
- There would be no cane planted, weeded, cut, or ground without some form of compliance from the workers themselves.
1. 1.1weed someone/something out Remove an inferior or unwanted component of a group or collection.
  we must raise the level of research and weed out the poorest work
  我们必须提高研究水平，把质量最差的工作剔除。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Lynch says that while some agencies are badly run, he makes checks to ensure unsuitable candidates are weeded out.
  It would also fund the hiring of 10,000 new Department of Homeland Security personnel dedicated to weeding illegal immigrants out of the workforce and an additional 1,000 for detecting immigration fraud.
  Incompetent and dangerous laboratories would be weeded out and further tragedies like these minimized.
  As Sheehan notes, there's a reason why Eisenhower was so intolerant of failure and so ruthless about weeding it out.
  Corruption is something that has to be weeded out of our system.
  And they have applauded the role of the local community in helping the police to weed out the troublemakers.
  Sure, some people will waste time with it, but a company should be able to figure out who's not doing their job properly and weed them out.
  All moderating influences within the party have been weeded out.
  Of course there is no easy way of weeding them out.
  Through rigorous screening - and I mean rigorous - and gut instinct, you can weed these people out.
  Synonyms
  isolate, separate out, set apart, put to one side, divide, segregate, sort out, sift out, winnow out, filter out, sieve

Origin

Old English wēod (noun), wēodian (verb), of unknown origin; related to Dutch wieden (verb).

词汇	weed
释义	Definition of weed in English: weed nounwiːdwid 1A wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants. 杂草，野草 keep the seedlings clear of weeds Example sentencesExamples There are several small varieties that grow wild as weeds in North America. Write down which plants were infected with diseases and where the weeds grew most. But Mr Merritt said horsetail could be a troublesome weed in any crop. It doesn't look at if it's been used for some time, as a small jungle of bushes, nettles and weeds have grown up around it. They hide during the day under mulch, plant debris, rocks, boards, weeds, and ground covers. The lawn was well-kept, but still a bit wild, with weeds and poorly pruned brushes lining the walkway up the hill. Just like our garden plants, weeds have certain preferences for growing conditions. A site that will not grow other plants and weeds or has some type of soil problem will probably not be ideal for wildflowers. He says that the group had been working hard to improve the area around the sawmill dam by tackling the jungle of weeds, brambles and nettles that had grown up through years of neglect. The best time to eliminate weeds and grass is the season before you plan to plant your garden. Raised on a farm in the eastern part of North Carolina, Jo grew up pulling weeds in her mother's cutting garden. Spread wheat straw mulch over your garden in February to keep weeds at bay. Mike already has a layer of wood chip mulch in place around his plants to keep down weeds and conserve moisture. Nests are open cups made of weeds, grass, plant fibers, and moss, with a lining of fur and feathers. Typically, herbicides are applied only to the strip of ground directly under the vine, and weeds growing between the rows are controlled by cultivation or mowing. Given the right conditions many will grow like weeds, seeding freely around. The courtyard is cluttered with potted plants, half of them dead or dying, with weeds growing around the pots and covering most of the small yard. Honeysuckle will quickly cover everything in its path, choking out weeds as it grows. Clear all the weeds and grass from the area you intend to cover to prevent them from growing up through the mulch. This will help prevent weeds from growing, and additionally will feed your soil slowly over time. 1.1mass noun Any wild plant growing in salt or fresh water. 水生植物 at the far side of the beach the rocks began, some humped with brown weed Example sentencesExamples It has been listed as one of the 100 worst invasive alien species in the world, and it is considered the second most serious weed in the South Pacific. The weed impedes water's natural flow and can destroy native communities of aquatic plants and animals. I woke to find Graham out in the garden carrying out some much needed maintenance on the fish pond, topping it up with fresh water and pulling out some weed. Move over hydrilla, there's a bigger, meaner invasive aquatic weed in town. Aquatic weeds have also grown to epidemic proportions. At the moment there is deeper water and reasonable floating weed cover in one area, so the Jacanas have not left. From a distance, this appears to be the mottled brown of old brick, but as I get closer I see that there is a coating of fine brown weed. But, no, they just sat deep in the bottom, sheltering under the great mass of oxygenating weed that's grown from three strands in less than a year, and gulped. The west bank is more sandy and shallow with weed growing, and the opposite bank more rocky and deeper. This weed can grow in ten to fifteen feet of water or more from top to bottom and seems to be impossible to fish in. By now summer is under way, the weed is growing and all species of fish are feeding well. If more effort were put into ensuring rivers and watercourses were properly dredged and cleared of weed and vegetation, it might have helped to contain the water, he said. There's plenty of weed growing around them, and although not particularly pleasant to look at, among its folds you will see plenty of hovering juvenile pike. 1.2informal mass noun Cannabis. 〈非正式〉大麻 Example sentencesExamples By no means am I condoning the use of any drug; I'm just trying to get you to realise that there are far worse things than smoking a bit of weed. The way I see it is this: lots of people say that smoking weed, or whatever you want to call it, leads to stronger drugs. You may have heard it called marijuana, weed or hash but it is still cannabis, a natural drug that comes from a plant. It went on like that for a few months until it got to the point where we were truanting from school every day and smoking weed. I suppose when you're out of your mind on cheap cider, homegrown weed and crack cocaine you might enjoy muck like that. The chap sat next to us had black glasses on and was smoking weed. I stopped smoking weed after that for a couple of months and started to get drunk again. He never touched weed, cocaine or anything else. Last night, I also smoked weed for the first time in a year. It was very refreshing to walk into coffee shops, buy some weed, borrow their bong and sit down and have a nice smoke. I know absolutely no heroin addicts and I know plenty of people who smoke weed. On Villa Road there are kids selling crack, weed and cocaine. For one, the average youth doesn't see smoking weed as a ‘rebellion’ against society any more. She is in her sixties, and without smoking weed, she has difficulty moving. All the research means very little when a large proportion of the population have decided that they like to smoke a bit of weed. I had no trouble stopping taking weed and after one farewell joint, gave up. 99% of the people I know have tried or smoke weed and not one is an addict on any other drug. Had he not supplied weed, none of us would ever have spoken to him. Still who needs weed when you've got coffee and nicotine? But at the point where most of my friends went from weed or hash to LSD or ecstasy, I stopped smoking. 1.3the weedinformal Tobacco. smokers are advised to eat more fruit, as the weed can increase the risk of gastric cancer Example sentencesExamples Do addicts of the demon weed, tobacco, experience increased pleasure from life as a result of smoking tobacco? But the first time these two came into contact with each other, they had to share the spotlight with, yes, the weed, tobacco. 2British informal A contemptibly feeble person. he thought party games were for weeds and wets Example sentencesExamples ‘I have always been a bit of a weed, to be honest, and I am always being told to try weight training and go to a gym,’ he said. ‘Well, some thought he was a bit of a weed, but he doesn't come around anymore,’ he quipped. Synonyms coward, weakling, milksop, milquetoast, namby-pamby, crybaby, baby 3informal A leggy, loosely built horse. 〈非正式〉（长腿）瘦弱的马 my tiny bay weed could jump like a stag verbwiːdwid [with object] 1Remove unwanted plants from (an area of ground) 清除…的杂草 I was weeding a flower bed 我当时在清除花坛的杂草。 Example sentencesExamples Then today I was weeding the bed in front of my house and lifted a mop of variegated grass to see a toad looking at me from a hollow he'd made in the shade of my porch. She weeded fastidiously, removing the plants and roots before they came to maturity, and preparing compost from them. Weeding the entire garden would take a single person hours, if not days. The girls have weeded a neighbor's yard, done some dog sitting and worked at extra chores around the house. The students were involved in weeding a section of the land, before replanting natural plants and trees. She would be out milking the cows, nipping the turnips, weeding the carrots. The group cleared and cleaned the pond, weeded the area, pruned the shrubs, fertilised the soil and planted out bedding plants. I'd worked through worse weather weeding the fields and it wasn't that cold. She weeded my front garden and helped me put up the rotary washing line in the back garden. Fields are generally tiny, and you sometimes see a man ploughing one with a tractor, or a woman weeding one with a mattock. Once an area is weeded, a deep mulch will go some way towards stopping weeds from reappearing. For best crops, weed and water regularly and consistently. After planting, each plot was weeded periodically. Maureen planted many colourful plants, weeded, clipped and pruned the area so that it was a delight to the eye at Easter. I weeded the garden and picked produce for Jan to take to the Saturday market when she returned. Women and children plant, weed, and harvest most food crops. They were also asking businesses, shops, etc to weed the area outside their premises every morning. As we weeded the lettuce patch one day recently, you took satisfaction in likening us to a pair of police getting rid of bad guys. There would be no cane planted, weeded, cut, or ground without some form of compliance from the workers themselves. Any time spent weeding this month will save twice as much time later in the season. 2weed someone/something outRemove an inferior or unwanted component of a group or collection. we must raise the level of research and weed out the poorest work 我们必须提高研究水平，把质量最差的工作剔除。 Example sentencesExamples It would also fund the hiring of 10,000 new Department of Homeland Security personnel dedicated to weeding illegal immigrants out of the workforce and an additional 1,000 for detecting immigration fraud. Through rigorous screening - and I mean rigorous - and gut instinct, you can weed these people out. Incompetent and dangerous laboratories would be weeded out and further tragedies like these minimized. And they have applauded the role of the local community in helping the police to weed out the troublemakers. Corruption is something that has to be weeded out of our system. All moderating influences within the party have been weeded out. Lynch says that while some agencies are badly run, he makes checks to ensure unsuitable candidates are weeded out. As Sheehan notes, there's a reason why Eisenhower was so intolerant of failure and so ruthless about weeding it out. Of course there is no easy way of weeding them out. Sure, some people will waste time with it, but a company should be able to figure out who's not doing their job properly and weed them out. Synonyms isolate, separate out, set apart, put to one side, divide, segregate, sort out, sift out, winnow out, filter out, sieve eliminate, get rid of, remove, dispense with, shed informal dump, lose Derivatives weeder nounˈwiːdəˈwidər Propane weeders, which kill plants by searing them with a flame, should be used with extreme caution. Example sentencesExamples As the plants mature, wire weeders can be run extremely close to the cotton's woody stalks without doing harm, allowing thorough cultivation. Many organic farmers use flame weeders as an alternative to herbicides. We decided to get these fields planted as quickly as possible using only tine weeders for weed control. For larger weeds, water thoroughly, then use a hand weeder to pop them out of the ground. My sister and I liked to eat the vegetables but we dreaded the planting because we were the weeders. weedless adjective The creeklet ran clear; every pebble on the weedless bottom was etched in moonlight. Example sentencesExamples Every one of those fields is absolutely weedless; the GM giant has seen to that. Their world in general seemed in disrepair - a beautiful, tangled waste of bushes and flowers; a long-neglected and yet weedless garden. It was a place where sanity prevailed; a place of full employment; conventional white, white-collar corporate families; clean streets; well-kept weedless lawns; neatly trimmed hedges. His garden was nearly weedless with straight, clean rows aligned like soldiers. Origin Old English wēod (noun), wēodian (verb), of unknown origin; related to Dutch wieden (verb). Rhymes accede, bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, concede, creed, deed, Eid, exceed, feed, Gide, God speed, greed, he'd, heed, impede, interbreed, intercede, Jamshid, knead, lead, mead, Mede, meed, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, plead, proceed, read, rede, reed, Reid, retrocede, screed, secede, seed, she'd, speed, stampede, steed, succeed, supersede, Swede, tweed, weak-kneed, we'd Definition of weed in US English: weed nounwidwēd 1A wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants. 杂草，野草 Example sentencesExamples Honeysuckle will quickly cover everything in its path, choking out weeds as it grows. A site that will not grow other plants and weeds or has some type of soil problem will probably not be ideal for wildflowers. Spread wheat straw mulch over your garden in February to keep weeds at bay. The courtyard is cluttered with potted plants, half of them dead or dying, with weeds growing around the pots and covering most of the small yard. Given the right conditions many will grow like weeds, seeding freely around. He says that the group had been working hard to improve the area around the sawmill dam by tackling the jungle of weeds, brambles and nettles that had grown up through years of neglect. Mike already has a layer of wood chip mulch in place around his plants to keep down weeds and conserve moisture. This will help prevent weeds from growing, and additionally will feed your soil slowly over time. There are several small varieties that grow wild as weeds in North America. Just like our garden plants, weeds have certain preferences for growing conditions. The best time to eliminate weeds and grass is the season before you plan to plant your garden. It doesn't look at if it's been used for some time, as a small jungle of bushes, nettles and weeds have grown up around it. Write down which plants were infected with diseases and where the weeds grew most. Typically, herbicides are applied only to the strip of ground directly under the vine, and weeds growing between the rows are controlled by cultivation or mowing. Raised on a farm in the eastern part of North Carolina, Jo grew up pulling weeds in her mother's cutting garden. Clear all the weeds and grass from the area you intend to cover to prevent them from growing up through the mulch. But Mr Merritt said horsetail could be a troublesome weed in any crop. The lawn was well-kept, but still a bit wild, with weeds and poorly pruned brushes lining the walkway up the hill. Nests are open cups made of weeds, grass, plant fibers, and moss, with a lining of fur and feathers. They hide during the day under mulch, plant debris, rocks, boards, weeds, and ground covers. 1.1 Any wild plant growing in salt or fresh water. 水生植物 Example sentencesExamples At the moment there is deeper water and reasonable floating weed cover in one area, so the Jacanas have not left. From a distance, this appears to be the mottled brown of old brick, but as I get closer I see that there is a coating of fine brown weed. This weed can grow in ten to fifteen feet of water or more from top to bottom and seems to be impossible to fish in. I woke to find Graham out in the garden carrying out some much needed maintenance on the fish pond, topping it up with fresh water and pulling out some weed. If more effort were put into ensuring rivers and watercourses were properly dredged and cleared of weed and vegetation, it might have helped to contain the water, he said. By now summer is under way, the weed is growing and all species of fish are feeding well. Aquatic weeds have also grown to epidemic proportions. The weed impedes water's natural flow and can destroy native communities of aquatic plants and animals. The west bank is more sandy and shallow with weed growing, and the opposite bank more rocky and deeper. Move over hydrilla, there's a bigger, meaner invasive aquatic weed in town. But, no, they just sat deep in the bottom, sheltering under the great mass of oxygenating weed that's grown from three strands in less than a year, and gulped. It has been listed as one of the 100 worst invasive alien species in the world, and it is considered the second most serious weed in the South Pacific. There's plenty of weed growing around them, and although not particularly pleasant to look at, among its folds you will see plenty of hovering juvenile pike. 1.2informal Marijuana. Example sentencesExamples He wasn't always pumping his body full of alcohol, weed, cocaine, painkillers or steroids. Problem is, I've got no weed until it grows and gets sticky. His job will be to procure the marijuana and ensure a steady supply of quality weed. It came out after the shooting that he happened to grow weed as well and within minutes the entire tragedy got turned into a debate about legalizing marijuana. We go to a nearby coffee house, share a bag of weed, have coffee, and get to know each other. To them, marijuana (also called weed because of its ability to thrive in adverse conditions), is not a drug but a herb. His breath smelled strongly of fresh weed, a smell she knew only too well as her own brother came home every night smelling just like it. I tell her that no one has died from smoking weed, and that people die of alcohol every day. For instance, did you know that people plant weed in the forest there? 1.3the weedinformal Tobacco. Example sentencesExamples But the first time these two came into contact with each other, they had to share the spotlight with, yes, the weed, tobacco. Do addicts of the demon weed, tobacco, experience increased pleasure from life as a result of smoking tobacco? 1.4informal A leggy, loosely built horse. 〈非正式〉（长腿）瘦弱的马 verbwidwēd [with object] 1Remove unwanted plants from (an area of ground or the plants cultivated in it) 清除…的杂草 I was weeding a flower bed 我当时在清除花坛的杂草。 Example sentencesExamples Fields are generally tiny, and you sometimes see a man ploughing one with a tractor, or a woman weeding one with a mattock. I weeded the garden and picked produce for Jan to take to the Saturday market when she returned. The girls have weeded a neighbor's yard, done some dog sitting and worked at extra chores around the house. She weeded fastidiously, removing the plants and roots before they came to maturity, and preparing compost from them. She would be out milking the cows, nipping the turnips, weeding the carrots. Then today I was weeding the bed in front of my house and lifted a mop of variegated grass to see a toad looking at me from a hollow he'd made in the shade of my porch. They were also asking businesses, shops, etc to weed the area outside their premises every morning. As we weeded the lettuce patch one day recently, you took satisfaction in likening us to a pair of police getting rid of bad guys. I'd worked through worse weather weeding the fields and it wasn't that cold. The students were involved in weeding a section of the land, before replanting natural plants and trees. She weeded my front garden and helped me put up the rotary washing line in the back garden. For best crops, weed and water regularly and consistently. The group cleared and cleaned the pond, weeded the area, pruned the shrubs, fertilised the soil and planted out bedding plants. Any time spent weeding this month will save twice as much time later in the season. Women and children plant, weed, and harvest most food crops. Once an area is weeded, a deep mulch will go some way towards stopping weeds from reappearing. After planting, each plot was weeded periodically. Maureen planted many colourful plants, weeded, clipped and pruned the area so that it was a delight to the eye at Easter. Weeding the entire garden would take a single person hours, if not days. There would be no cane planted, weeded, cut, or ground without some form of compliance from the workers themselves. 1.1weed someone/something out Remove an inferior or unwanted component of a group or collection. we must raise the level of research and weed out the poorest work 我们必须提高研究水平，把质量最差的工作剔除。 Example sentencesExamples Lynch says that while some agencies are badly run, he makes checks to ensure unsuitable candidates are weeded out. It would also fund the hiring of 10,000 new Department of Homeland Security personnel dedicated to weeding illegal immigrants out of the workforce and an additional 1,000 for detecting immigration fraud. Incompetent and dangerous laboratories would be weeded out and further tragedies like these minimized. As Sheehan notes, there's a reason why Eisenhower was so intolerant of failure and so ruthless about weeding it out. Corruption is something that has to be weeded out of our system. And they have applauded the role of the local community in helping the police to weed out the troublemakers. Sure, some people will waste time with it, but a company should be able to figure out who's not doing their job properly and weed them out. All moderating influences within the party have been weeded out. Of course there is no easy way of weeding them out. Through rigorous screening - and I mean rigorous - and gut instinct, you can weed these people out. Synonyms isolate, separate out, set apart, put to one side, divide, segregate, sort out, sift out, winnow out, filter out, sieve Origin Old English wēod (noun), wēodian (verb), of unknown origin; related to Dutch wieden (verb).
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