Synonyms of filtering

filtering

verb

present participle of filter

1

as in straining

to pass through a filter

steep the tea and then filter it to get rid of the leaves

Synonyms & Similar Words

• straining
• screening
• leaching
• percolating

2

as in clarifying

to remove usually visible impurities from

after frying the chicken, we filtered the oil and kept it in the refrigerator to use again

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clarifying
• refining
• cleaning
• processing
• extracting
• fining
• washing
• purifying
• purging
• distilling
• clearing
• sifting
• cleansing
• garbling
• rectifying
• leaching
• sieving
• screening
• disinfecting
• sanitizing
• decontaminating
• elutriating
• bolting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clouding
• contaminating
• dulling
• muddying
• soiling
• polluting
• dirtying
• tainting
• defiling
• fouling
• sullying
• besmirching
• begriming

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of filtering

But Thorpe’s prose ushers us through the eponymous hero’s crises with humor and panache, filtering the bright but naive protagonist-Margo’s evolution through the voice of a narrator-Margo who has developed some perspective. — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026

Anthropic, citing both legal obligation and the technical impossibility of filtering users by nationality in real time, shut both models down globally despite their value. — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Your lymphatic system has been running quietly in the background your whole life, filtering waste, shuttling immune cells and moving fluid that your circulatory system leaves behind. — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 29 June 2026

When lymphatic clearance slows, so does the system responsible for filtering metabolic waste from neural tissue. — Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2026

Like the living room, the bedroom is painted the same flat white but the quality of the eastern light filtering into the bedroom casts a buttery glow. — Marissa Gluck, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026

Snag the skin-filtering makeup hack on major sale for just $19 on Amazon. — Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 26 June 2026

The culmination of the event saw people filtering into the shore to create a circle of colorful surfboards dotted with flowers to toss into the ocean to honor ancestors, invoke healing and celebrate the relationship between Black people and the ocean. — Gabrielle Gillette, Mercury News, 23 June 2026

Eagle-eyed shoppers will start to notice sections of Bed Bath & Beyond filtering into nearly 100 The Container Store locations across the country. — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 23 June 2026