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siftsift /sɪft/ verb [transitive] ETYMOLOGYsiftOrigin: Old English siftan VERB TABLEsift |
Present | I, you, we, they | sift | | he, she, it | sifts | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | sifted | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have sifted | | he, she, it | has sifted | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had sifted | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will sift | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have sifted |
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Present | I | am sifting | | he, she, it | is sifting | | you, we, they | are sifting | Past | I, he, she, it | was sifting | | you, we, they | were sifting | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been sifting | | he, she, it | has been sifting | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been sifting | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be sifting | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been sifting |
1 to put flour, sugar, etc. through a sifter or similar container in order to remove large pieces2 (also sift through) to examine information, documents, etc. carefully in order to find something out or decide what is important and what is not: She was sifting through some of her mother’s old letters.sift something ↔ out phrasal verb to separate something from other things: sift out from It’s hard to sift out the truth from the lies in this case. |