| Main Entry: | filter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | separate to refine; seep through |
Synonyms: |
clarify, clean, distill, drain, dribble, escape, exude, filtrate, leak, metastasize, ooze, osmose, penetrate, percolate, permeate, purify, refine, screen, sieve, sift, soak through, strain, trickle, winnow |
Antonyms: |
collect, combine |
| Main Entry: | clarify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | purify |
Synonyms: |
clean, cleanse, depurate, distill, filter, rarefy, refine |
Antonyms: |
dirty, muddle, muddy |
| Main Entry: | drip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drop, trickle |
Synonyms: |
dribble, drizzle, exude, filter, plop, rain, splash, sprinkle, trill, weep |
Antonyms: |
pour |
| Main Entry: | funnel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | direct down a path |
Synonyms: |
carry, channel, conduct, convey, filter, move, pass, pipe, pour, siphon, traject, transmit |
| Main Entry: | leach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drain, empty |
Synonyms: |
extract, filter, filtrate, lixiviate, percolate, seep, strain, wash away |
| Notes: | leach means to remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; a leech is a carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic worms typically having a sucker at each end - or a follower who hangs around a host in hope of gain |
| Main Entry: | ooze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emit liquid |
Synonyms: |
bleed, discharge, drain, dribble, drip, drop, escape, exude, filter, flow, issue, leach, leak, overflow, percolate, perspire, seep, spurt, strain, sweat, swelter, trickle, weep, well |
| Main Entry: | percolate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | seep, drip (liquid) |
Synonyms: |
bleed, bubble, charge, drain, exude, filter, filtrate, impregnate, leach, ooze, pass through, penetrate, perk, permeate, pervade, saturate, strain, sweat, transfuse, transude, weep |
| Main Entry: | purify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | free; make clean |
Synonyms: |
absolve, aerate, aerify, atone, chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, decontaminate, deodorize, depurate, deterge, disinfect, edulcorate, elutriate, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, filter, fumigate, lustrate, oxygenate, purge, rarify, redeem, refine, remit, sanctify, sanitize, shrive, sublimate, wash |
Antonyms: |
adulterate, corrupt, dirty, pollute |
| Main Entry: | refine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | purify |
Synonyms: |
clarify, cleanse, distill, filter, process, rarefy, strain |
Antonyms: |
corrupt, dirty, pollute |
| Main Entry: | screen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | examine and choose |
Synonyms: |
cull, eliminate, evaluate, extract, filter, gauge, grade, pick out, process, riddle, scan, select, separate, sieve, sift, sort, winnow |