to remove something that is not wanted using a filter
to remove things from a group
At the first meeting we filter out all unsuitable candidates.
He said, `Are you sure you can't do something with your system; filter out some of the impurities?
Reed beds filter out much of the pollution.
The first photographs and reports from Qum and Baghdad were beginning to filter out.
`I'm OK,' I said, breathing back the heavy breakfast, trying to filter out the taint of tortoise air freshener.
filters out
filtering out
filtered out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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