cull
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8.2
- noun
- /kʌl/
- Offensive
:
basura (insulto)
- The farmer decided to sell the culls from his harvest to make room for higher-quality produce.
- culls of vegetables
Examples
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Meanwhile, both kings had engaged in a cull of the surviving representatives of the Plantagenet bloodline.
Academic text (2010) -
A "cull" is a specimen that is so worthless... that you have to cut him out of the herd.
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Documents related to any HIV campaign might have been included in the cull.
Academic text (2013) -
The pet cull was part of the disease prevention and resource conservation program.
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The cows turned out to be culls, the old, halt, and lame from the dairylots of canny Wisconsin.
Fiction book (1993) -
At the agricultural show, judges discussed how the cull of less desirable breed entries improved the overall quality of the competition.
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The company chose to keep only the best products, labeling the rest as culls to be discarded.
Synonyms
17
3.9
A person or thing that others do not accept
11
4.7
Something thought to be worthless or of very low quality
How Unwanted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cull comes from an old word meaning 'to pick' or 'gather', the same idea as in collect. A 'cull' was something picked out from a group because it was not wanted, which is why today it means a person or thing rejected as inferior.