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Verb filter has 3 senses
- filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter out - remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"
--1 is one way to separate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- percolate, sink in, permeate, filter - pass through; "Water permeates sand easily"
--2 is one way to penetrate, perforate
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- trickle, dribble, filter - run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in"
--3 is one way to run, flow, feed, course
Sample sentence:
Water and oil filter into the bowl
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