cull
[verb]
Synonyms: glean, extract, garner, gather, pick up, choose, elect, mark, opt (for), optate, pick, prefer, select, single (out), take
[noun]
Synonyms: fool, butt, chump, dupe, easy mark, fall guy, fish, gull, mark, sucker

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Related Idioms: separate the sheep from the goats, separate the wheat from the chaff
Related Words: accumulate, amass, collect, round up, discriminate

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. cull¹ /kʌl/ verb [transitive]
[Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: cuillir, from Latin colligere; ⇒ collect¹]

1. to kill animals so that there are not too many of them, or so that a disease does not spread

2. formal to find or choose information from many different places Synonym : collate
cull something from something
The data had been culled from a variety of sources.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. cull² noun [countable]
the act of killing animals so that there are not too many of them, or so that a disease does not spread

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲