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Definitions for Cull

[1] to choose; select; pick.
[2] to gather the choice things or parts from.
[3] to collect; gather; pluck.
[4] act of culling.
[5] something culled, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior.
[6] to choose or gather the best or required examples
[7] to take out (an animal, esp an inferior one) from a herd
[8] to reduce the size of (a herd or flock) by killing a proportion of its members
[9] to gather (flowers, fruit, etc)
[10] to cease to employ; get rid of
[11] the act or product of culling
[12] an inferior animal taken from a herd or group

Words related to Cull

glean, winnow, pluck, sift, extract, select, amass, collect, discriminate, prefer, choose, mark, take, elect, thin, accumulate, garner

Words nearby Cull

culicifuge, culicoides, culinarian, culinary, culion, cull, cullen, cullen's sign, cullender, culler, cullet

Origin of Cull

1300–50; Middle English coilen, cuilen, cullen < Anglo-French, Old French cuillir < Latin colligere to gather; see collect1

Words that may be confused with Cull

call, caul, cull

Other words from Cull

cull·er , noun
out·cull , verb (used with object)
o·ver·cull , verb (used with object)
un·culled , adjective

Word origin for Cull

C15: from Old French coillir to pick, from Latin colligere; see collect 1

Synonyms for Cull

extract, glean, pluck, select, sift, winnow, choose, discriminate, elect, mark, prefer, take, thin, opt for, optate, single out, thin out