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# cull

«cull» in Mova's school dictionary: **to kill some of them on purpose, to keep the group small…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (cull, culls, culled, culling); noun (a cull, culls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To cull animals means to kill some of them on purpose, to keep the group small or healthy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#m1)

2) To cull means to choose or collect things from many sources: «facts culled from books». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#m2)

3) (noun) A cull is an act of killing some animals in a group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature news it is about managing animal numbers, for example deer or pests; it is often argued about. In maths problems a cull reduces a population: subtract. Phrases: «a deer cull», «culled from».

### examples

- The park plans to cull some of the deer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x1)
- The farmer culled the sick hens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x2)
- The facts were culled from old newspapers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x3)
- After a cull of 40, how many of the 300 deer are left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x4)
- Many people protested against the badger cull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x5)
- She culled the best photos for the album. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x6)

### note

Sometimes a softer word for killing animals. Maths: a cull takes away from the number, so subtract. Not the same as «call» or «cool».

### In the corpora

- ["Culled" means animals were killed to reduce their numbers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cull» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.