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filtering out

filtering out is the present participle and gerund 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 filtering out

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

Words near filtering out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filtering 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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