英语词汇“cull”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

verb | noun

cullcull1 /kʌl/ verb

ETYMOLOGYcull¹

Origin: 1100-1200 Old French cuillir, from Latin colligere; ➔ COLLECT¹

VERB TABLE

cull

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	cull
	he, she, it	culls
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	culled
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have culled
	he, she, it	has culled
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had culled
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will cull
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have culled

Continuous Form
Present	I	am culling
	he, she, it	is culling
	you, we, they	are culling
Past	I, he, she, it	was culling
	you, we, they	were culling
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been culling
	he, she, it	has been culling
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been culling
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be culling
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been culling

1[transitive] formal to find or choose information from many different places: Names of potential jurors are culled from voter registration lists.2[intransitive, transitive] to kill the weakest animals in a group so that the size of the group does not increase too much: Goats that are larger than average are culled from the herd.