MEANING
1. To select and gather particular items from a larger collection.
2. To remove selected animals, often by killing them, to control numbers or health.
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Words that belong together
- cull examples from
- cull information
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She culled the useful names from a stack of damaged letters.
The chronicle was culled from travelers’ accounts.
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Word forms
- Base
- cull
- Past tense
- culled
- Past participle
- culled
- Present participle
- culling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- cull
- Present continuous
- am/is/are culling
- Present perfect
- have/has culled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been culling
- Past
- culled
- Past continuous
- was/were culling
- Past perfect
- had culled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been culling
- Future
- will cull
- Future continuous
- will be culling
- Future perfect
- will have culled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been culling
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: cull; culls; culled; culled; culling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: culls.
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