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weeds

/ wiːdz /

plural noun

  1. Also calledwidow's weeds a widow's black mourning clothes
  2. obsolete.
    any clothing
“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


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Origin of weeds1

pl of weed ²
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Example Sentences

But Horrigan says the site weeds out red flags like vague or unlisted addresses.

Sound is the unseen force binding both Weeds and Orange Is the New Black.

Lagos has an unplanned-ness to it, houses spring up everywhere like weeds, roads and streets interweave.

Before we get too deep into the weeds,” Morgan interrupted, “Is your mom running for president?

Even in the Showtime series Weeds, a fictitious tobacco company looked to pot as its future growth industry.

The young plants were kept free from weeds, and were transplanted when about two inches high.

She is still attired in widow's weeds, but looks more composed and happy than when we saw her many months ago there.

Tessa had gone down to her flower-bed to pull a few weeds that had pushed themselves in among her pansies.

The dooryard was covered with a heavy sod and the ancient flower beds had run wild with weeds.

Eudora was racing now through the briers, and weeds, and palmetto stumps, and dragging Mandy Ann with her.

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