| 单词 | weeder out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweeder out weeder out n. a person who or thing which weeds out someone or something (in various senses of to weed out at weed v. Phrasal verbs). ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > clearing or sweeping away > riddance > of selected undesirable things or persons weeding out1558 weeder out1559 weeding1589 weed-out1873 1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale iv. ii. f. 60 O Philosophie, the leader of our life, the emplantour of vertue, the weeder out of vyces, what shoulde either I or the whole life of man be, withoute thee. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 123 I was a packhorse in his great affaires, A weeder out of his proud aduersaries. 1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 228 Thou art a weeder out Of vices, from the place of vertues graine. 1830 G. Griffin Tracy's Ambition ii, in Rivals II. 127 So this great croppy-gardener, this weeder-out of disaffection, is come, with his hoes and rakes and nippers, to make the ground clear in our neighbourhood? 1876 Idaho Avalanche 26 Aug. A weeder-out of the rotten and criminal from the public service. 1912 Life & Health Sept. 551/1 Alcohol..needs some one to champion its cause, if even on the theory that it is useful as a weeder-out of the unfit. 2005 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 June 1447/1 Were the government to embark on such public spirited legislation, it would..need to set up another regulating body to revalidate and ‘weed out’ the revalidators and ‘weeders out’. < as lemmas |
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