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Synonyms of sieve in English:

sieve


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noun

1‘use a sieve to strain the mixture’

SYNONYMS
strainer, sifter, filter, colander, riddle, screen, muslin cloth
archaic griddle

verb

1‘sieve the mixture into a bowl’

SYNONYMS
strain, sift, screen, filter, riddle
archaic bolt, griddle

2‘a hoard of coins was carefully sieved from the ash’

SYNONYMS
separate out, filter out, sift, sort out, isolate, divide, part, segregate, put to one side, weed out, remove, extract