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Past tense of filter

regular verb

The past tense of filter is filtered. The past participle is also filtered.

Forms of filter

Base form (V1)filter /ˈfɪltə/
Past tense (V2)filtered
Past participle (V3)filtered
Present participlefiltering
Third person singularfilters

Filtered in a sentence

  • But fans’ emotions are no longer filtered through ticket or album sales; they’re heard directly, constantly, at all hours, on all the platforms people visit to generate and extinguish bad feelings in a never-ending cycle.2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine
  • The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
  • The filtered extract of the mash is the feedstock for the fermenter.From the entry feedstock
  • They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.From the entry fine
  • Sunlight filtered blotchily through the forest canopy.From the entry blotchily

Meaning of filter

  1. noun A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
  2. noun Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
  3. noun Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.

Full definition of filter

Questions about the past tense of filter

What is the past tense of filter?
The past tense of filter is filtered.
What is the past participle of filter?
The past participle of filter is filtered.
Is filter a regular or irregular verb?
Filter is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: filter (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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