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filtered up

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

Meaning of filter up

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) Of information, knowledge or practice; to move slowly up to other levels of an organisation, or population.
    • There are some brilliant new approaches being created at grass-roots level, but it is taking a long time for them to filter up to the larger institutions.

Questions about filtered up

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

Words near filtered up in the dictionary

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

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