weed1
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- pronunciation:
- wid
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Homophone Note, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
any undesirable plant that grows wild, as in gardens or among cultivated crops.
It used to be a flower garden, but now it's filled with weeds.
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| definition 2: |
(informal) marijuana.
The cops stopped him for drunk driving and then found some weed in his car.- similar words:
- dope, pot
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| definition 3: |
(informal) tobacco or a cigarette.
Are you still smoking weeds? I thought you'd quit. |
| related words: |
dope |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
weeds, weeding, weeded |
| definition 1: |
to clear (a garden, field, or the like) of weeds.
We weed our vegetable garden every week. |
| definition 2: |
to remove as worthless or undesirable (often fol. by "out").
He weeded out several paragraphs from the manuscript.- similar words:
- prune
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| related words: |
cultivate |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to remove weeds.
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| derivations: |
weedless (adj.), weedlike (adj.), weeder (n.) |
The word
weed and the contraction
we'd ("we had" or "we would") sound alike but have different meanings.