weed out
Eliminate the undesirable
To weed out is to remove unwanted elements from a group, as a gardener removes weeds from among plants.
The phrase implies sorting through and eliminating what's undesirable: The interview process weeds out unqualified candidates.
You can weed out errors, inefficiencies, or people who don't belong.
remove
Take something away
winnow · separate · expunge · exclude · discard · reject · excise · cut · extract · identify
pull
Force toward oneself
thin · prune · clear · mulch · deadhead · remove · extract · hand-pick · rake · herbicide
- exclusionexclude, excluded, banned, bans, eliminate
- root outuproot, eradicate, root up, hunt down, track down
- sorting actionssift, filter, cull, separate, divide
- gardening termsgrowing, blooming, wilting, pruning, grafting
- deletiondelete, erase, erasure, strikethrough, x
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final