culling

/หˆkสŒlษชล‹/

IPA: /K AH1 L IH0 NG/

verb
  1. 1

    To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).

  2. 2

    To gather, collect.

  3. 3

    To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.

  4. 4

    To kill (animals etc).

  5. 5

    To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.

noun
  1. 1

    The act by which things are culled; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal.

  2. 2

    Anything separated or selected from a mass.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cull, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/culling