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Verb sift has 4 senses

sift - move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods"
--₁ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
sift, sieve, strain - separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
--₂ is one way to separate

Derived forms: noun sifter₁, noun sifting₁, noun sieve₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
sieve, sift - check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
--₃ is one way to analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
sieve, sift - distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"
--₄ is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody