[
US
/ˈwid/
]
[ UK /wˈiːd/ ]
[ UK /wˈiːd/ ]
NOUN
- any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
- street names for marijuana
- a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
VERB
-
clear of weeds
weed the garden
How To Use weed In A Sentence
- It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists.
- She took a lot of tweed and heavy suiting, an ankle-length dress and platform shoes - quite the bonkers stuff.
- The larvae absorb toxins from their food plant, milkweed.
- Because wheat emerges so quickly, weeds must be killed before drilling using tillage or contact herbicides.
- So weeding out potential jurors with unchangeable views on guilt or innocence has the elaborateness of celebrity trials like that of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted at the same courthouse in 1995. Jackson jury Q&A tests media's grip
- Slowly it drifts down across the sea-curled weeds, the anchored life of the marine world.
- Nancy and Andy bring in Stevie for an emergency pediatrician visit on "Weeds" (Showtime at 10), only to turn on the television in the waiting room and learn that the feds are a little too close to catching their family. TV highlights: Monday, Oct.18, 2010
- Don't amend the soil with compost or other fertilizers unless your soil is so poor it won't even grow weeds.
- Tweed sports jackets are all the rage, and the best part is that you don't need to worry about matching patterns when it comes to blazers and button-down shirts.