Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb weed_out

1 sense of weed out

Sense 1
weed out, comb out -- (remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities")
       => get rid of, remove -- (dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood")