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filters out

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

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

Words near filters out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filters 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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