cull

Speech parts

1. cull - Noun

2. cull - Verb

3. Cull - Proper noun

Meaning

To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pick reject pluck garner take cut prune prise Sif screen choose sort draw copy destroy
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Antonyms

join link secure connect combine repair
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Hypernyms

garner remove collect gather decision making deciding

Hyponyms

berry mushroom

Phrases with the word

Cull Bay

Derivatives

culled culling

Examples

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? Cormac McCarthy

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. Charles Churchill (satirist)

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't. Alan Sugar

Great toil is oft by trifling theme entailed, But whoso clearly sets it forth and well, No trifling fruit he from his skill doth cull. Giovanni Rucellai

pick mushrooms Source: Internet

pick flowers Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

culinology Culkerton Culkin Cull Bay cull out cullable