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outsift

outsift verb: to sift out.

Verb

outsift (third-person singular simple present outsifts, present participle outsifting, simple past and past participle outsifted)

  1. (archaic, poetic, transitive) To sift out.
    • So let me not sift amiss, / But by Wisdom still be taught / To outsift each evil thought / From the mind, and keep behind / The food of bliss.1872, John Charles Curtis, The New Poetical Reader, page 140
    • But when we are uplifted, / And all the chaff outsifted […]1873, Sara Louisa Oberholtzer, Violet Lee, and Other Poems, page 72

Forms of outsift

third-person singular presentoutsifts
present participleoutsifting
past participleoutsifted
pastoutsifted

Origin of outsift

From out- + sift.

Questions about outsift

What does outsift mean?
Outsift means to sift out.
What part of speech is outsift?
Outsift is a verb.
What is the past tense of outsift?
The past tense of outsift is outsifted.

Words near outsift in the dictionary

  1. outsiderly
  2. outsiderness
  3. outsiders
  4. outsides
  5. outsiding
  6. outsift
  7. outsifted
  8. outsifting
  9. outsifts
  10. outsigh
  11. outsighed

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