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[ kuhl ] / kʌl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR cull ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object)to choose; select; pick. to gather the choice things or parts from. to collect; gather; pluck. nounact of culling. something culled, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior. Origin of cull1300–50; Middle English coilen, cuilen, cullen<Anglo-French, Old French cuillir<Latin colligere to gather; see collect 1SYNONYMS FOR cull2 glean, extract. 3 garner, winnow. SEE SYNONYMS FOR cull ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM cullculler, nounoutcull, verb (used with object)o·ver·cull, verb (used with object)un·culled, adjectiveWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH cullcall, caul, cull Words nearby cullculicifuge, Culicoides, culinarian, culinary, Culion, cull, Cullen, cullender, Cullen's sign, culler, cullet Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cullIn 2012 she again raised eyebrows when she suggested that badgers shot in any cull should be eaten. The Week in Death: Clarissa Dickson Wright, One of ‘Two Fat Ladies’|The Telegraph|March 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST In this case, a cull of the Taliban and ISAF tweets yields a unique view into the current state of Afghan affairs. Taliban And NATO War on Twitter|Sam Schneider|November 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST Steele visited Sparks in Harlem to cull from his collection of high-end labels and vintage pieces. Queer Style A History of Fashion at FIT in New York|Peter Davis|September 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST The Daily Beast speed-read the book, which is out today, to cull the biggest, juiciest revelations. 9 Juicy Bits from Ron Suskind’s Book|David A. Graham|September 20, 2011|DAILY BEAST
To cull him now would make little sense: It would, in effect, be to kill an ant with a nuclear weapon. Why Steele Should Stay|Tunku Varadarajan|July 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST Of the many epitaphs on sportsmen to be seen in Nottinghamshire, we cull a few of the choicest. Curious Epitaphs|William Andrews Your chief work will be to cull flowers from the forest for my devotions. Folk-Tales of Bengal|Lal Behari Day In the old days the usurer used his own name, now they cull the peerage for the most historical they can find. London in the Sixties|One of the Old Brigade "You'll have to cull your herd a bit, that's all," Mac said; and needlework was pointed out as a luxury. We of the Never-Never|Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn Part of a padre's recognized function is to cull and purvey news. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad|Edward John Thompson
British Dictionary definitions for cull
verb (tr)to choose or gather the best or required examples to take out (an animal, esp an inferior one) from a herd to reduce the size of (a herd or flock) by killing a proportion of its members to gather (flowers, fruit, etc) to cease to employ; get rid of nounthe act or product of culling an inferior animal taken from a herd or group Word Origin for cullC15: from Old French coillir to pick, from Latin colligere; see collect 1 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to cullglean, winnow, pluck, sift, extract, select, amass, collect, round up, discriminate, prefer, choose, mark, take, elect, thin, accumulate, garner, opt for, single out |