Definitions for weeds

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weeds weed

Spelling: [weed]

IPA: /wid/

Weeds is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in weeds (deesw).

Definitions for weeds

noun

1. weeds, mourning garments:
2. a mourning band of black crepe or cloth, as worn on a man's hat or coat sleeve.
3. Often, weeds. Archaic. a garment: clothing.
4. a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
5. any undesirable or troublesome plant, especially one that grows profusely where it is not wanted:
6. Informal. a cigarette or cigar.
7. Slang. a marijuana cigarette.
8. a thin, ungainly person or animal.
9. a wretched or useless animal, especially a horse unfit for racing or breeding purposes.
10. the weed. Informal. tobacco. Slang. marijuana.

Idioms

1. (deep) in / into the weeds, Slang. (of a restaurant worker) overwhelmed and falling behind in serving customers: in trouble; overwhelmed by problems: involved in the details: Also, in deep weeds.

verb (used with object)

1. to free from weeds or troublesome plants; root out weeds from:
2. to root out or remove (a weed or weeds), as from a garden (often followed by out):
3. to remove as being undesirable, inefficient, or superfluous (often followed by out):
4. to rid (something) of undesirable or superfluous elements.

verb (used without object)

1. to remove weeds or the like.

Origin of weeds

before 900; Middle English wede, Old English wǣd, (ge)wǣde garment, clothing; cognate with Old Saxon wād, gewādi, Old High German wāt, gewāti clothing; cf. wadmal

Examples for weeds

I'm not going to go down deep into the weeds of all the details here.

Michael and Uli had to hoe the weeds in the next field near by.

Google “sexist articles about Bill Clinton” and you will be searching in the weeds.

He could run a mower, and clean a pasture of weeds in a day.

When it comes to Orange Is the New Black, the new Netflix series by weeds creator Jenji Kohan, that is the question.

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

All through the middle ages suits of armour are called 'weeds.'

Caroline is the worst; the weeds, with her, have had longer time to get ahead.

Sami squatted down and pulled at the weeds with all his might.

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