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filtered down

filtered down is the simple past and past participle of filter down.

Meaning of filter down

Verb

filter down (third-person singular simple present filters down, present participle filtering down, simple past and past participle filtered down)

  1. Of a liquid; to move slowly down to lower substrate levels.
  2. (idiomatic) (by extension) Of information, or resources; to move slowly down to lower levels of an organisation, or population.
    • They might say that the economy is improving, but it is taking a long time for any money to filter down to the poorer classes.

Questions about filtered down

What is filtered down the simple past and past participle of?
Filtered down is the simple past and past participle of filter down.

Words near filtered down in the dictionary

  1. filtercard
  2. filtercards
  3. filtercube
  4. filtercubes
  5. filtered
  6. filtered down
  7. filtered out
  8. filtered up
  9. filtered-popping recursive transition network
  10. filtered-popping recursive transition networks
  11. filterer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filtered down (page history and authors); filter down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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