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filters down

filters down is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 filters down

What is filters down the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Filters down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of filter down.

Words near filters down in the dictionary

  1. filterpaper
  2. filterpapers
  3. filterplate
  4. filterplates
  5. filters
  6. filters down
  7. filters out
  8. filters up
  9. filterset
  10. filtersets
  11. filtertop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filters 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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