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- pronunciation:
- wid
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Homophone Note, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
A weed is any kind of wild plant that people do not think is useful or pretty. Weeds are strong plants and they spread quickly, so they make it hard for other plants to grow in the same place. If you are trying to grow crops, weeds are a bad thing.
That area used to be a flower garden, but now it's filled with weeds.
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
weeds, weeding, weeded |
| definition: |
When you weed a garden, you pull or dig the weeds out of the garden.
My mom weeds the garden in the morning when it's still cool outside. |
| related words: |
cultivate |
| 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.