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sort through

sort through verb: to look through (a collection of documents, facts, etc.) to make sense of them or put them in order.

Verb

sort through (third-person singular simple present sorts through, present participle sorting through, simple past and past participle sorted through)

  1. To look through (a collection of documents, facts, etc.) to make sense of them or put them in order.
    • You have to sort through the facts and come to a conclusion.

Forms of sort through

third-person singular presentsorts through
present participlesorting through
past participlesorted through
pastsorted through

Questions about sort through

What does sort through mean?
Sort through means to look through (a collection of documents, facts, etc.) to make sense of them or put them in order.
What part of speech is sort through?
Sort through is a verb.
What is the past tense of sort through?
The past tense of sort through is sorted through.

Words near sort through in the dictionary

  1. sort codes
  2. sort of
  3. sort oneself out
  4. sort out
  5. sort the wheat from the chaff
  6. sort through
  7. sort while pick
  8. sort've
  9. sort-of
  10. sort-while-pick
  11. sorta

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