# weeds

Pronunciation: say "WEEDZ" /wiːdz/

## Noun

1. Plural of weed. — plural of weed
   - Simple: Plural of weed. Use this when talking about more than one weed.
   - _Thick weeds choked the abandoned lot by midsummer._
   - _Farmers spray to keep weeds from crowding out the crops._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present of weed. — third-person singular simple present indicative of weed
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of weed. Use it with he, she, or it.
   - _The gardener weeds between the rows after every heavy rainfall._
   - _Each spring she weeds the entire border by hand._

## Noun

3. Clothing; the garments or apparel worn on the body. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Clothing, or the garments that a person wears.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–2** — Inflected form of weed.
**Meaning 3** — This sense comes from Old English wǣd or wǣde, which came from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz, meaning a piece of cloth or a garment.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/weeds (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).