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filtering up

filtering up is the present participle and gerund 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 filtering up

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

Words near filtering up in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filtering 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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