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weeds

WEEDZ/wiːdz/

3 meanings of weeds

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  1. 1
    noun
    Plural of weed. Use this when talking about more than one weed.

    The garden was full of weeds after the rainy week.

    We pulled all the weeds out of the flower bed.

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  2. 2
    verb
    Third-person singular simple present of weed. Use it with he, she, or it.

    She weeds the vegetable patch every Saturday morning.

    He weeds around the tomato plants before the sun gets too hot.

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  3. 3
    nounobsoleteplural
    Clothing, or the garments that a person wears.
    Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;
    1598, William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”Here, weeds means clothes.
    What sight is this? What company of women Is wending hitherward, in sable weeds Conspicuous?
    1886, Aeschylus, ChoephoriHere, weeds means clothes, here black ones.
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weeds is a form of weed

weed, noun: A wild plant that grows where it isn't wanted, such as in a garden or field. Full entry

Forms
weedweeds plural
Spelling
weed → weeds: add -s
Sound
The ending sounds like /z/.

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Origins

Meanings 1–2

Inflected form of weed.

Meaning 3

It comes from the Old English word wǣd, meaning a piece of cloth or garment.