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filter 1 of 2

verb

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as in to screen
to pass through a filter steep the tea and then filter it to get rid of the leaves

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as in to refine
to remove usually visible impurities from after frying the chicken, we filtered the oil and kept it in the refrigerator to use again

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filter

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noun

as in purifier

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“Filter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filter. Accessed 8 Dec. 2022.

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