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filtered out

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

Meaning of filter out

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To selectively remove part of something.
    • The sieve will filter out large rocks and grains of sand.
  2. (intransitive) To come out gradually (e.g. news).
    • The story of last winter's unprecedented snowstorms in Great Britain is slowly filtering out.1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177

Questions about filtered out

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

Words near filtered out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filtered out (page history and authors); filter out (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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