weed out (v)
comb out (v)

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type v
lex_filenum 40
def remove unwanted elements
examples The company weeded out the incompetent people
The new law weeds out the old inequities
Frame - 8 Somebody ----s something
Frame - 9 Somebody ----s somebody
Frame - 11 Something ----s something
Outgoing links
Hypernym get rid of, remove
Derivationally related form comb out → comb-out
Incoming links
Derivationally related form comb-out → comb out
Hyponym get rid of, remove

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