cull

Part of speech - definition - Example (used in a sentence) 1.to choose; select; pick.verb 2. to gather the choice things or parts from.verb 3. act of culling. 4. something culled, esp. something picked out and put aside as inferior. 5.verb- to collect;gather;pluck 6. (verb) to pick out for a reason 7.Something picked out from others, especially something rejected because of inferior quality. 8.To remove rejected members or parts from (a herd, for example). 9.a socially unacceptable person 10. If items or ideas **are culled from** a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together. 11. All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports. 12. To **cull** animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers. 13. Verb- to select or pick out specifically 14. Verb- to carefully collect 15.Verb-to choose carefully pluck or gather

Synonyms: glean garner extract gather winnow pick up take one round up pluck choose single out mark sift elect prefer take thin select opt

Antonyms: 1. add 2. insert 3. give 4. put in 5. edit in 6. take many 7. accumulate 8. pull in 9. poor

Related words/other forms: culler (noun) outcull (verb) overcull (verb) unculled (adj). cullinary culion culicide

Phrases: cull the crops

Images: she is culling. he is culling his nose. he is culling grass. She is culling for a pumpkin



This little boy is culling flowers



I chose this picture because this little girl is culling apples.

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