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Definition: Weeds |
WeedsNoun1. A black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning. 2. A black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "weeds" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Weeds n. 1. Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application. Comes from `off in the weeds'. Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds...." 2. At CDC/ETA before its demise, the phrase `go off in the weeds' was equivalent mainstream hackerdom's jump off into never-never land. Source: Jargon File. |
19th Century Satire | Found in gardens and widows. For removing easily, marry the widow. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Literature | Weeds Widow's weeds. (Anglo-Saxon, waed, a garment.) There are the compounds waed-bréc (breeches or garment for the breech), waedless (naked or without clothing), and so on. Spenser speaks of "A goodly lady clad in hunter's weed." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: WeedsSynonyms: mourning band (n), widow's weeds (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Kimono; lungi; shooting-coat; mufti; rags, tatters, old clothes; mourning, weeds; duds; slippers. |
Divorce | Widowhood, viduity, weeds. |
Inutility | Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads. |
Lamentation | Mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth and ashes; lachrymatory; knell; deep death song, dirge, coronach, nenia, requiem, elegy, epicedium; threne; monody, threnody; jeremiad, jeremiade; ullalulla. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Now what is a wedding, well Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as: the process of removing weeds from one's garden (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Tim, you're just a lost ball in the high weeds. (Bad Day at Black Rock; writing credit: Howard Breslin; Don McGuire) In England, roses are out -- weeds are in. Is that all (Funeral in Berlin; writing credit: Len Deighton; Evan Jones) I've been known to pull a few weeds. (American Gothic; writing credit: Mariana Reyes; Doris Seguí) | |
Lyrics | Palm trees and weeds, scabbed knees and rice (Cowboy; performing artist: KID ROCK) | |
Clever | A person of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Let's Look at Weeds (1959) The Garden of Weeds (1924) In the Weeds (2000) Weeds (1987) Widows Weeds (1981) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Junvenile lobster use weeds and sponges as refuge. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). | ![]() | Wiper attachment applies contact herbicide to only those weeds that grow above the soybean canopy for this northwest Iowa farmer. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
![]() | Crop scouting for pests, including weeds and insects. Credit: Tim McCabe. | ![]() | Spot spraying problem weeds is the preferred method of weed control rather than general application of pesticides over the entire yard. Spot spraying is a practice also used on farms. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
![]() | Weeds choke flood dammaged farm of African American farmer Bennie Butler in Calhoun County, GA. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Plant genticist Robert Dilday checks a rice variety that keeps weeds at bay by releasing a natural chemical. Credit: USDA. |
![]() | Plant pathologist Rick Bennett examines fungi that may be used for biological control of pernicious weeds. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. | ![]() | In cooperation with University of California scientist and others, ARS plant pathologist Lars Anderson researches treatments that will stem the growth of aquatic weeds such as Eurasian watermilfoil. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Brian Prechtel.. |
A single, white wildflower amongst desert weeds. Credit: Beth Perault. | Blurry little weeds with purple flowers and an Agua Fria National Monument mountain range in the background. Credit: Beth Perault. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Weeds" by Tracy Woodward Commentary: "These are weeds from my back yard." | "Yellow Weeds and Sky 1" by Shawn Sutherland Commentary: "Yellow, flowering weeds. A little blurry here and there but pretty nonetheless against a clear blue sky." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
David Hume | The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. |
Dorothy Day | We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. |
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. |
Emily Bronte | Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main. |
Henry Ward Beecher | He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. |
Jonathan Westover | We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. |
Robert Green Ingersoll | The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. |
Thomas Fuller | A good garden may have some weeds. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | But little Pearl was not clad in rustic weeds. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A young girl was pulling weeds in a field, where a large green poster, probably of a travelling show at some annual fair, fluttered in the wind |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A field of stiff weeds and thistles and tufted nettlebunches |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And Pa was born here, and he killed weeds and snakes |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | A long war, not with cranes, but with weeds, those Trojans who had sun and rain and dews on their side |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For example, people allergic to ragweed may leave their ragweed-ridden communities and relocate to areas where ragweed does not grow, only to develop allergies to other weeds or even to grasses or trees in their new surroundings. (references) | |
If you have allergies, you're probably well aware that the sneezin' season is upon us. During the warm weather months, pollen from trees, weeds, and grasses fills the air and finds its way into the noses and throats of just about everyone. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ukraine | Over 30+ACU- of the annual harvest is lost due to controllable insects, fungi and weeds. (references) |
Ukraine | The best potential for U.S. firms wishing to enter the market and those already operating in Ukraine is in pesticides that combat weeds, plant diseases and insects. (references) | |
Trade | Azerbaijan | State plant quarantine inspection laws ensure standards on products that may carry diseases, pests and/or weeds that have quarantine significance for Azerbaijan. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry. The purpose of coloring it has not been disclosed by the manufacturers. There was a youth (you've heard before, This woeful tale, may be), Who bought a meerschaum pipe and swore That color it would he! He shut himself from the world away, Nor any soul he saw. He smoke by night, he smoked by day, As hard as he could draw. His dog died moaning in the wrath Of winds that blew aloof; The weeds were in the gravel path, The owl was on the roof. "He's gone afar, he'll come no more," The neighbors sadly say. And so they batter in the door To take his goods away. Dead, pipe in mouth, the youngster lay, Nut-brown in face and limb. "That pipe's a lovely white," they say, "But it has colored him!" The moral there's small need to sing -- 'Tis plain as day to you: Don't play your game on any thing That is a gamester too. Martin Bulstrode |
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| "Weeds" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.91% of the time. "Weeds" is used about 488 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 95.91% | 469 | 12,605 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 2.66% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.43% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 488 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "weeds": annual weeds ♦ biennial weeds ♦ clear from weeds ♦ ditchbank weeds ♦ emergent weeds ♦ emersed weeds ♦ floating weeds ♦ ill weeds grow apace ♦ perennial weeds ♦ submerged weeds ♦ submersed weeds ♦ weeds screen ♦ widow's weeds. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "weeds": pond-weeds, Sea-weeds. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
weeds | 762 | florida weeds | 12 |
lawn weeds | 156 | common lawn weeds | 11 |
noxious weeds | 56 | lawn care weeds | 10 |
picture weeds | 54 | poisonous weeds | 10 |
kill weeds | 39 | weeds west | 10 |
killing weeds | 32 | vinegar weeds | 10 |
identifying weeds | 32 | kill lake weeds | 10 |
pond weeds | 29 | invasive weeds | 10 |
garden weeds | 29 | get rid of weeds | 9 |
identify weeds | 25 | photo weeds | 9 |
type weeds | 24 | rid of weeds | 9 |
common weeds | 23 | nantucket.com weeds | 9 |
lake weeds | 23 | weeds yard | 9 |
grass weeds | 21 | biological control weeds | 9 |
aquatic weeds | 19 | identify lawn weeds | 9 |
broadleaf weeds | 18 | michigan weeds | 8 |
biblical weeds | 17 | thistle weeds | 8 |
edible weeds | 15 | colorado noxious weeds | 8 |
lawn picture weeds | 15 | flowering weeds | 7 |
texas weeds | 14 | water weeds | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "weeds"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rroba zije. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | траур (mourning, sables). (various references) | |
Chinese | 菆 (arrow), 葍 , 稂 (grass), 杂草 (Weed). (various references) | |
Danish | vinterannuelt ukrudt (annual weeds), ukrudtskaerm (weeds screen), ukrudtfanger (weeds screen), toaarigt ukrudt (biennial weeds), sommerannuelt ukrudt (annual weeds), skadevirkning af ukrudt (injurious effect of weeds), rodukrudt (root propagating weeds, root-propagated weed), groeftekantsvegetation (ditchbank weeds), frøukrudt (seed-propagated weeds), foer roerne spirer,bekaempes det allerede spirede ukrudt med en ukrudtsstrigle med lille tangvaegt,men mange taender (before the beets sprout, the pushing weeds are killed by means of a spiked chain harrow with a great number of light spikes), flerårigt ukrudt (perennial weeds), fastsiddende eller fritsvoemmende vandplanter med eller uden flydeblade (emergent aquatics, emergent weeds, emersed aquatics, emersed weeds, floating aquatics, floating weeds, submerged aquatics, submerged weeds, submersed aquatics, submersed weeds, surface aquatics). (various references) | |
Dutch | wortelstokken verspreidend onkruid (root propagating weeds), wortelonkruid (perennial weeds, root-propagated weed), zaadonkruid (seed-propagated weeds), tweejarig onkruid (biennial weeds), schade door onkruid (injurious effect of weeds), overblijvend onkruid (perennial weeds), opduikend onkruid (emergent aquatics, emergent weeds, emersed aquatics, emersed weeds), onderwater-onkruid (submerged aquatics, submerged weeds, submersed aquatics, submersed weeds), meerjarig onkruid (perennial weeds), krooshek (weeds screen), het opkomende onkruid wordt voor de opkomst van de bieten vernietigd met behulp van een lichte onkruideg met veel tanden (before the beets sprout, the pushing weeds are killed by means of a spiked chain harrow with a great number of light spikes), eenjarig onkruid (annual weeds), drijvend onkruid (floating aquatics, floating weeds, surface aquatics), bermonkruid (ditchbank weeds). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | jallmana (to pull weeds). (various references) | |
Finnish | yksivuotinen rikkakasvi (annual weeds), vedenalainen rikkakasvi (submerged aquatics, submerged weeds, submersed aquatics, submersed weeds), siemenrikkakasvi (seed-propagated weeds), rikkakasvisiivilä (weeds screen), rikkakasvien aiheuttama vahinko (injurious effect of weeds), ojan reunoilla kasvava rikkakasvi (ditchbank weeds), monivuotinen rikkakasvi (perennial weeds), kitkeä (pull up weeds, weed, weed out), kertarikkakasvi (seed-propagated weeds), kelluva rikkakasvi (floating aquatics, floating weeds, surface aquatics), kaksivuotinen rikkakasvi (biennial weeds), juuririkkakasvi (root propagating weeds). (various references) | |
French | toile de paillage herbicide (mulching to suppress weeds), mauvaises herbes vivaces (perennial weeds), mauvaises herbes submergées (submerged weeds, submersed weeds), mauvaises herbes propageant des racines (root propagating weeds), mauvaises herbes propagées par des semences (seed-propagated weeds), mauvaises herbes flottantes (floating weeds), mauvaises herbes de berges (ditchbank weeds), mauvaises herbes bisannuelles (biennial weeds), mauvaises herbes annuelles (annual weeds), mauvaises herbes amphibies (emergent weeds, emersed weeds), mauvaises herbes émergées (emergent weeds, emersed weeds), les plantes adventices sont détruites avant que les betteraves sortent,à l'aide d'une herse souple comportant des dents légères mais très rapprochées (the pushing weeds are killed by means of a spiked chain harrow with a great number of light spikes), grille d'arrêt de mauvaises herbes (weeds screen), dégât causé par les mauvaises herbes (injurious effect of weeds). (various references) | |
German | Unkraut (weed), Unkräuter. (various references) | |
Greek | πένθιμα ενδύματα χήρασ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyomverte kert (garden running to weeds), elgazosodott kert (garden running to weeds, weed-grown garden), eldudvásodott kert (garden running to weeds), eldobja az özvegyi fátylat (to cast one's weeds), újra férjhez megy (to cast one's weeds). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gulma. (various references) | |
Italian | vegetazione pluriennale (perennial weeds), vegetazione biennale (biennial weeds), vegetazione annuale (annual weeds), vegetazione acquatica sommersa (submerged aquatics, submerged weeds, submersed aquatics, submersed weeds), vegetazione acquatica galleggiante (floating aquatics, floating weeds, surface aquatics), vegetazione acquatica emergente (emergent aquatics, emergent weeds, emersed aquatics, emersed weeds), prima che le bietole escano,le piante infestanti sono distrutte mediante un erpice snodato,con denti sottili molto avvicinati (before the beets sprout, the pushing weeds are killed by means of a spiked chain harrow with a great number of light spikes), pacciamatura contro le piante infestanti (mulching to suppress weeds), malerbepropagate per radici (root propagating weeds), malerbe a propagazione per seme (seed-propagated weeds), mal erbe perenni (perennial weeds), griglia per le erbacce (weeds screen), erbacce di sponda (ditchbank weeds), danni causati da piante infestanti (injurious effect of weeds). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蓬生 (area overgrown with weeds, wasteland), 下草 (undergrowth, weeds beneath a tree). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | したくさ (undergrowth, weeds beneath a tree), よもぎう (area overgrown with weeds, wasteland). (various references) | |
Korean | 잡초 (Weed). (various references) | |
Manx | feial (dally), brouteraght (dirt, mix up). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eedsway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | luto de viúva. (various references) | |
Romanian | ierbãrie, haine de doliu (sable), dudãu, buruieniş, buruieni, bãlãrii. (various references) | |
Russian | траур (mourning, sables). (various references) | |
Scottish | lusach (plants or weeds). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | korov (darnel, weed). (various references) | |
Spanish | malas hierbas (weed, weedage), hierbajos. (various references) | |
Swedish | sorgdräkt (mourning). (various references) | |
Turkish | matem elbisesi (mourning, mourning dress, widow's weeds). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | траур (crape, mourning, sables). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Jonah Chapter 2, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai egw eipa apwsmai ex ofqalmwn sou ara prosqhsw tou epibleyai proV ton naon ton agion sou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et ego dixi abiectus sum a conspectu oculorum tuorum verumtamen rursus videbo templum sanctum tuum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Y saide, Y am cast awey fro the siyt of thin eeyen; netheles eftsoone Y shal see thin holy |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The water copased me eue vn to the very soule of me: the depe laye aboute me: ad the wedes were wrappte aboude myne heed. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Jonah Chapter 2, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ang katubigan nanaglimis kanako, bisan pa hangtud sa akong kalag; Ang kahiladman nanaglibut kanako; Ang mga lusay nanagputos sa akong ulo. |
| Croatian | Pomislih: odbaèen sam ispred oèiju tvojih. Al' ipak oèi upirem svetom Hramu tvojem. |
| Danish | Jeg tænkte: "Bort er jeg stødt fra dine Øjne, aldrig mer skal jeg skue dit hellige Tempel." |
| Dutch | De wateren hadden mij omgeven tot de ziel toe, de afgrond omving mij; het wier was aan mijn hoofd gebonden. |
| Finnish | Minä ajattelin: Olen karkoitettu pois sinun silmiesi edestä. Kuitenkin minä saan vielä katsella sinun pyhää temppeliäsi. |
| German | Wasser umgaben mich bis an mein Leben, die Tiefe umringte mich; Schilf bedeckte mein Haupt. |
| Haitian Creole | Dlo yo kouvri m', yo te prèt pou neye m'. Lanmè a te fin vale m', zèb lanmè te mare nan tout tèt mwen. |
| Hungarian | És én mondám: Elvettettem a te szemeid elõl; vajha láthatnám még szentséged templomát! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Air laut naik sampai ke bibirku, samudra raya meliputi seluruh tubuhku, ganggang laut membelit kepalaku. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa segala air itu sudah mengelilingi aku sampai kepada jiwaku dan tubirpun sudah menangkap aku, dan kepalakupun sudah terbelit dengan lumut. |
| Manx Gaelic | Haink ny ushtaghyn mygeayrt-y-moom, eer gys my annym: ren y diunid m'y chruinnaghey mygeayrt, va'n amlagh cast mysh my chione. |
| Maori | Karapotia ana ahau e te wai, tae tonu iho ki te wairua; i oku taha katoa te rire a taka noa; he rimu nga takai o toku mahunga. |
| Norwegian | Jeg tenkte: Jeg er støtt bort fra dine øine. Men jeg skal atter skue op til ditt hellige tempel. |
| Portuguese | As águas me cercaram até a alma, o abismo me rodeou, e as algas se enrolaram na minha cabeça. |
| Rumanian | Apele m`au acoperit pknq aproape sq-mi ia viaya, adkncul m`a knvqluit, papura s`a kmpletit kn jurul capului meu. |
| Swedish | Jag tänkte då: 'Jag är bortdriven ifrån dina ögon.' Men jag skall åter få skåda upp mot ditt heliga tempel. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "weeds": agueweeds, beggarweeds, bindweeds, bitterweeds, blueweeds, bugleweeds, bullweeds, burweeds, butterweeds, carpetweeds, chickweeds, cottonweeds, crazyweeds, cudweeds, daneweeds, deerweeds, duckweeds, dyeweeds, fireweeds, gulfweeds, gumweeds, hawkweeds, hempweeds, hogweeds, horseweeds, ironweeds, jewelweeds, jimsonweeds, knapweeds, knotweeds, locoweeds, mayweeds, milkweeds, pickerelweeds, pigweeds, pinweeds, pokeweeds, pondweeds, ragweeds, richweeds, rockweeds, rosinweeds, seaweeds, silkweeds, silverweeds, smartweeds, snakeweeds, snapweeds, sneezeweeds, stickweeds, stinkweeds. (additional references) | |
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"Weeds" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eeds, wadeds, weads, wedis, Weede, weedn, weedt, weeed, weegs, Weems, weens, wees, weesh, weets, weevs, weide, werds, woads, wodes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "weeds" (pronounced wē"dz) |
| 4 | w ē" d z | swedes. |
| 3 | -ē" d z | accedes, beads, bleeds, breeds, cedes, concedes, creeds, deeds, exceeds, feeds, heeds, impedes, leads, meads, misdeeds, misleads, needs, pleads, precedes, proceeds, reads, recedes, reeds, seeds, speeds, succeeds, supersedes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sewed, swede. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-s-w" | |
-1 letter: dees, dews, ewes, seed, weds, weed, wees. | |
-2 letters: dee, dew, eds, ewe, see, sew, wed, wee. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, es, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-s-w" | |
+1 letter: bedews, dweebs, reweds, shewed, skewed, slewed, spewed, stewed, swedes, tweeds, wedels, wedges. | |
+2 letters: deewans, dewaxes, dewiest, dewless, drawees, endwise, lewdest, resawed, resewed, resowed, rewelds, screwed, seaweed, sewered, shrewed, sinewed, strewed, sweated, swelled, swerved, unsewed, wedders, wedelns, wedgies, weeders, welders, welshed, wrested. | |
+3 letters: answered, awardees, bendwise, besnowed, bestowed, burweeds, cudweeds, dewaters, dewiness, doweries, dwellers, dyeweeds, edgeways, edgewise, endowers, eschewed, escrowed, gumweeds, hogweeds, leewards, lewdness, mayweeds, midweeks, pigweeds, pinweeds, ragweeds, redwares, reendows, reshowed, rewashed, rewidens, seaweeds, seesawed, showered, shrewder, shrewdie, sidewise, silkweed, skewered, snapweed, speedway, sumpweed, swiveled, tarweeds, tweedles, waxweeds, weakside, weaseled, wedgiest, weediest, weedless, weekdays, weekends, weirdest, weirdies, weirdoes, weldless, wergelds, westered, wheedles, wideners, wideness, wielders, wormseed, worsened, wrestled. | |
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