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Synonyms of filter in English:

filter


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noun

1‘pass the water through a carbon filter’

SYNONYMS
strainer, sifter
sieve, riddle, colander
gauze, netting

verb

1‘the farmers filter the water’

SYNONYMS
sieve, strain, sift, filtrate, riddle
clarify, purify, clear, clean, make pure, refine, treat, process, decontaminate

2‘the rain had succeeded in filtering through her jacket’

SYNONYMS
seep, percolate, leak, trickle, ooze, dribble, bleed, flow
drain, well, exude, escape, leach