Weeds Common

Weeds has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Noun

a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning

"After her husband's death, she dressed in weeds to honor his memory."

weeds widow's weeds

plural of weed

"The old man was wearing weeds that had seen better days."

Clothes.

Verb

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weed

"He weeds the garden every Saturday morning."

In plain English: To weed means to pull unwanted plants out of your garden so they don't grow where you want them.

"The gardener needs to pull all those weeds out before they choke the flowers."

Example Sentences

"The gardener needs to pull all those weeds out before they choke the flowers." verb

"The invasive plants began to choke out all other vegetation in the garden." verb

"He spent his weekend clearing away the encroaching weeds from the field." verb

"Wildfires often spread quickly when dry weeds fuel the flames." verb

The word weeds is simply an inflected form of the singular noun weed. It retains the same meaning as its base form but changes to indicate plurality.

Rhyming Words

eds beds peds meds leds keds ieds reds teds feds weds meeds needs reeds leeds heeds coeds feeds seeds creds

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