weed

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈwiːd/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/wid/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(wēd)

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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
weed n often plural (unwanted plant)maleza nf
  mala hierba loc nom f
  yuyo nm
  hierbajo nm
 This garden's full of weeds.
 Este jardín está lleno de maleza.
weed n uncountable, slang (drug: marijuana)mariguana, marihuana nf
  (coloquial)hierba nf
  (MX)mota nf
  (ES)maría nf
 Do you want to buy some weed? He sat in his rocking chair smoking his weed.
 ¿Quieres comprar algo de mariguana?
the weed n informal (tobacco)tabaco nm
  cigarrillo nm
  cigarro nm
 Don is addicted to the weed; he smokes 40 a day.
 Don es adicto al tabaco, fuma 40 cigarrillos por día.
weed [sth] vtr (pull weeds)desmalezar vtr
  escardar vtr
 Can you help me weed the garden?
 ¿Me ayudas a desmalezar el jardín?
weed [sth/sb] vtr figurative (eliminate)depurar vtr
  (figurado)desmalezar vtr
 We need to weed all the poor performers from the company.
 Necesitamos depurar la compañía de malos actores.
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Additional Translations
InglésEspañol
weed n (seaweed)alga nf
  planta acuática nf + adj
 He put some weeds in his aquarium, to great effect.
 Puso algunas algas en el acuario que producían un gran efecto.
 Puso algunas plantas acuáticas en el acuario que producían un bonito efecto.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
wee vi UK, informal (urinate) (infantil)hacer pipí loc verb
  (coloquial)mear vi
 Harry went outside to wee on the compost.
 Harry salió fuera a hacer pipí en el compostaje.
wee n UK, informal (urine) (informal)pis nm
  (infantil)pipí nm
  (CL)pichi nm
 The doctor took a sample of wee for testing.
 El médico tomó una muestra de pis para analizarla.
wee adj regional, UK (very small)pequeñito adj
  minúsculo/a adj
  muy pequeño loc adj
 The wee child had to sit on a pile of cushions to reach the table.
 El niño pequeñito tenía que sentarse en una pila de cojines para llegar a la mesa.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Locuciones verbales
weed | wee
InglésEspañol
weed [sb] out,
weed out [sb]
vtr phrasal sep
figurative (remove [sb] unwanted)deshacerse de v prnl + prep
  hacer limpieza de loc verb
 Why don't you weed out the poor performers by raising performance standards?
 ¿Por qué no te deshaces de los malos actores elevando el estándar de actuación?
weed out [sth],
weed [sth] out
vtr phrasal sep
figurative (eradicate [sth])sacar vtr
  arrancar, extirpar vtr
 We're not going to weed out all the bad influences by stopping the free flow of information.
 No vamos sacar las malas influencias obstruyendo el libre fluir de la información.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Compound Forms:
weed | wee
InglésEspañol
butterfly weed,
orange milkweed
n
(milkweed: North American)algodoncillo nm
dill weed,
dill
n
(plant: aromatic herb)eneldo nm
 Dill weed is often used in eastern European cookery.
 Esta oración no es una traducción de la original. No utilizo el eneldo tanto como el perejil.
groundsel tree,
consumption weed
n
(type of shrub)chilca nf
horse gentian,
tinker's weed
n
(plant)triosteum nf
jewel weed n (flowering plant: busy lizzie) (botanica, Impatiens aurea)balsamina nf
jimson weed n US (loco weed: plant with toxic and hallucinogenic effects.)estramonio nm
 He has written in detail about his experimentation with jimson weed in northern Mexico.
 Ha escrito detalladamente sobre su experiencia con estramonio en el norte de México.
joe-pye weed,
purple boneset
n
(plant)eupatoria púrpura loc nom f
joe-pye weed,
spotted joe-pye weed
n
(plant)eupatoria púrpura loc nom f
loco weed,
locoweed
n
(plant: jimson)estramonio nm
 Esta oración no es una traducción de la original. Siempre hay algún tonto que quiere probarlo todo y acaba en el hospital por tomar estramonio.
  (botánica)datura nf
  datura stramonium loc nom f
weed killer n (herbicide: plant-destroying chemical)herbicida nm
 Vinegar can be used as a weed killer but may also kill other plants.
 El vinagre puede usarse como herbicida pero también puede matar a otras plantas.
whacker,
weed whacker
n
US (tool: grass trimmer)motoguadaña nf
  bordeadora nf
  orilladora nf
  desbrozadora nf
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Collocations: weed the [garden, lawn, flower beds], [overgrown, messy, withering, brown] weeds, weed [spray, killer, remover], more...

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