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English
Etymology
From out- + weed.
Verb
outweed (third-person singular simple present outweeds, present participle outweeding, simple past and past participle outweeded)
- (obsolete) To weed out.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “The Faerie Queene”, in The Works of Edmund Spenser, volume 3, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, T. Payne, Cadell and Davies, and R. H. Evans, published 1805, →OCLC, Canto IV, page 345:But ſparks, ſeed, drops, and filth, do thus delay;
The ſparks ſoone quench, the ſpringing ſeed outweed,
The drops dry up, and filth wipe cleane away
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