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filtering down

filtering down is the present participle and gerund 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 filtering down

What is filtering down the present participle and gerund of?
Filtering down is the present participle and gerund of filter down.

Words near filtering down in the dictionary

  1. filterest
  2. filtereth
  3. filtergram
  4. filtergrams
  5. filtering
  6. filtering down
  7. filtering out
  8. filtering up
  9. filterings
  10. filterless
  11. filterlessness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filtering 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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