weed out

verb

weeded out; weeding out; weeds out

: to remove (people or things that are not wanted) from a group

They will review the applications to weed out the less qualified candidates.

Examples of weed out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The celebs are competing to weed out the murderous Traitors among them for a cash prize of £100,000 for a charity of their choice in Ardross Castle in the Highlands. — Mya Copeland, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026

Universities began to strengthen their admissions criteria and rely more on the SAT to weed out some applicants. — Beth Kania-Gosche, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026

In a personalist system, leadership prizes loyalty, China expert Minxin Pei told The Beijing Brief podcast, with the consequence that strong figures — potential successors — tend to get weeded out. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Any insertions that have large, immediate, and potentially negative effects on an organism are usually rapidly weeded out by natural selection. — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for weed out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout