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sifted

 
Verb sift has 4 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
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