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All filter synonyms

fil·ter
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verb filter

  • dribble — to fall or flow in drops or small quantities; trickle.
  • permeate — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
  • drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
  • clean — Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks.
  • leak — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
  • winnow — to free (grain) from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., especially by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities.
  • sift — to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
  • refine — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
  • percolate — to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
  • penetrate — to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
  • trickle — to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream: Tears trickled down her cheeks.
  • clarify — To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.
  • screen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
  • purify — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
  • distill — to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.
  • strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
  • ooze — (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
  • sieve — an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts of loose matter, for straining liquids, etc., especially one with a circular frame and fine meshes or perforations.
  • filtrate — liquid that has been passed through a filter.
  • metastasize — Pathology. (of malignant cells or disease-producing organisms) to spread to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces.
  • osmose — to undergo osmosis.
  • riddle — a coarse sieve, as one for sifting sand in a foundry.
  • escape — An act of breaking free from confinement or control.
  • exude — Discharge (moisture or a smell) slowly and steadily.
  • categorize — If you categorize people or things, you divide them into sets or you say which set they belong to.
  • stream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
  • sort out — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
  • sort — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
  • seep — to pass, flow, or ooze gradually through a porous substance: Water seeps through cracks in the wall.

noun filter

  • strainer — a person or thing that strains.
  • mesh — any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.
  • sifter — a person or thing that sifts.
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