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# culled

«culled» in Mova's school dictionary: **killed a number of animals to reduce their numbers, or…** — 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)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, official) killed a number of animals to reduce their numbers, or because they are ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culled/#m1)

2) chose or picked out from a large group (culled facts from books). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culled/#m2)

3) (business) cut, removed (jobs culled). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culled/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used by farmers, wildlife officers and governments, it hides «killed» behind a technical word; also used for removing jobs or items. Official, jargon, all regions.

### examples

- Thousands of chickens were culled because of bird flu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culled/#x1)
- Deer are culled in the park to protect the trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culled/#x2)
- The editor culled the best stories from hundreds of letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culled/#x3)
- The company culled two hundred jobs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culled/#x4)
- The badgers were culled despite protests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culled/#x5)
- We culled old toys from the cupboard for the charity shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culled/#x6)

### note

It often means «killed» (animals). In the «picked out» sense nothing dies. Watch the subject.

### 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 «culled» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culled/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.