Word "SIFT" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
distinguish and separate out
Synonyms:
sieve
Examples:
sift through the job candidates

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
Synonyms:
sieve, strain
Examples:
sift the flour

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
check and sort carefully
Synonyms:
sieve
Examples:
sift the information

Crossword Clues for SIFT

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Clue Source Date
Put through a riddle Puzzler Backwords 27 Jun 2025
Pass through fine mesh
Smooth out, as flour
Run through a sieve USA Today 14 Jun 2025
Strain to make fist (4)
Look (through) Newsday 29 May 2025
Use sieve (4)
To separate or filter, using a sieve
Conditional on being found in the street, go through the evidence (4)
Filter fits awkwardly (4)
Catfish raised partial strain (4)
Declump, as flour Commuter 21 Mar 2025
Sieve, strain Mirror Tea Time 21 Mar 2025
Riddle solvable in fits? (4)
Verb in flour-y language LA Times Daily 15 Mar 2025
Use a sieve The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 15 Feb 2025
Scrutinise Mirror Quick 04 Feb 2025
Sieve fits badly Mirror Cryptic 04 Feb 2025
Use a sieve The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 21 Jan 2025
Put through a strainer Premier Sunday 19 Jan 2025
Closely examine the cause of deranged fits (4)
Refine flour Commuter 11 Dec 2024
Use a sieve to turn up some wet fish (4)
Examine carefully (4) Puzzler 29 Nov 2024
Remove coarse particles (4)
Separate flour Family Time 17 Nov 2024
Sieve, as flour
Sieve to separate finer and coarser parts (4)
Sort to be found if in the street (4)
Riddle The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 11 Oct 2024
De-lump flour Family Time 06 Oct 2024
Flour prep verb
Fits, perhaps, when you sort out what's too big
Starts shaking it forcefully to separate particles
Remove lumps with a sieve (4)
Winnow Eugene Sheffer 26 Aug 2024
___ through (examine, as a pile of papers)
De-clump, as flour Commuter 21 Aug 2024
Winnow Eugene Sheffer 14 Aug 2024
Put through a riddle Puzzler Backwords 21 Jul 2024
Screen is moved back twelve inches (4)
Verb in a bread recipe LA Times Daily 16 Jul 2024
Sieve, filter The Times Concise 04 Jul 2024
Winnow Eugene Sheffer 13 Jun 2024
Discriminatingly examine it if in the street (4)
Sieve flour
Put through a sieve Family Time 27 May 2024
Put through a sieve
Filter, as flour Universal 20 May 2024
To separate or filter, using a sieve
Prepare flour Universal 10 May 2024
Aerate, as flour LA Times Daily 24 Apr 2024
Separate from husband, wanting change (4)
Go through the evidence if found in the street (4)
Pass through sieve (4)
Separate, if in the way (4)
Strain flour
Make finer Thomas Joseph 29 Feb 2024
Screen some proposals if tendered (4)
If in a street fight - sort them out
Remove any coarseness if found in the street (4)
Start scraping that thing housing fine filter (4)
Use a sieve USA Today 24 Jan 2024
Prepare flour for cake-making LA Times Mini 19 Jan 2024
Sprinkle from a perforated container
Search with clenched fist Mirror Cryptic 29 Dec 2023
Sieve Mirror Quick 29 Dec 2023
Make finer, as flour Thomas Joseph 06 Nov 2023
Use a sieve Universal 17 Oct 2023
Search (through) Newsday 12 Sep 2023
Strain, as flour Newsday 22 Aug 2023
Make finer Thomas Joseph 12 Aug 2023
Riddle The Telegraph Quick 30 Jul 2023
Strain The Guardian Quick 07 Jun 2023
Winnow Eugene Sheffer 15 May 2023
Strain, as flour Universal 22 Apr 2023
Sort (through) New York Times 13 Apr 2023
Refine, as flour Newsday 11 Apr 2023
Put through a sieve
Filter (through) LA Times Daily 18 Mar 2023
Search (through) Universal 16 Jan 2023
Flour instruction USA Today 30 Oct 2022
Aerate, as flour Universal 27 Aug 2022
Free of lumps LA Times Daily 13 Aug 2022
Sort (through) LA Times Daily 20 Jul 2022
Put through a strainer USA Today 13 Jul 2022
Process, as flour Newsday 12 Jul 2022
Remove lumps in flour Family Time 19 Jun 2022
De-lump, like flour Universal 17 Jun 2022
De-lump, like flour Universal 08 May 2022
Make finer Thomas Joseph 29 Apr 2022
Wife abandons quick examination The Guardian Quiptic 18 Apr 2022
Wife abandons quick examination
Satirical author's left with riddle
Get the lumps out of flour Family Time 14 Mar 2022
Sort (through) New York Times 14 Mar 2022
Make finer Thomas Joseph 14 Mar 2022
Prepare, like flour Universal 27 Feb 2022
Sort through
Winnow Eugene Sheffer 01 Nov 2021
Filter, sieve The Guardian Speedy 12 Sep 2021
Comb The Washington Post 03 Sep 2021
Comb LA Times Daily 03 Sep 2021
Make finer Wall Street Journal 05 Aug 2021
Strain, as with flour The Washington Post Sunday 01 Aug 2021
De-clump, as flour New York Times 05 Jul 2021
Sort through one's mounting paper
Prep flour Wall Street Journal 30 Jun 2021
Sort (through) Newsday 06 May 2021
Use a strainer USA Today 23 Apr 2021
Work with flour Newsday 28 Mar 2021
Use a sieve USA Today 27 Mar 2021
Strain The Times Concise 14 Mar 2021
Search (through) Universal 24 Jan 2021
Search (through) Newsday 01 Jan 2021
Sort (through) New York Times 10 Nov 2020
Person revered pens poem and riddle The Telegraph Toughie 15 Sep 2020
Put through a strainer USA Today 25 Aug 2020
Sort through, as evidence New York Times 11 Aug 2020
Sieve The Telegraph Quick 15 Jul 2020
Go (through) carefully LA Times Daily 03 Jul 2020
Go (through) carefully The Washington Post 03 Jul 2020
Put through a strainer, as flour Newsday 11 May 2020
___ through (search) USA Today 26 Apr 2020
Make airier, as flour Universal 29 Mar 2020
Filter paper is raised aloft
What posers do, including following riddle
Prepare flour Universal 08 Nov 2019
Remove lumps from, say USA Today 30 Oct 2019
Examine fellow found hiding in hold
Make finer, in a way Wall Street Journal 01 Jul 2019
Separate Lives reviewed by newspaper
Winnow New York Times 19 May 2019
Sort through The Telegraph Quick 18 May 2019
Do a flour task Universal 02 May 2019
Sort through, as for clues Family Time 22 Apr 2019
Recipe direction LA Times Daily 29 Mar 2019
Recipe direction The Washington Post 29 Mar 2019
Winnow Eugene Sheffer 25 Mar 2019
Examine thoroughly Wall Street Journal 24 Jan 2019
Make flour finer Family Time 21 Jan 2019
Screen, if getting in the way The Telegraph Toughie 11 Jan 2019
Make finer, in a way
Recipe direction
Winnow
Do a flour task
Put through a strainer
Remove lumps from, say
Examine thoroughly
Refine, as flour Newsday 26 Nov 2018
Look carefully (through) Newsday 25 Nov 2018
Make finer Thomas Joseph 31 Oct 2018
Prepare flour for baking Jonesin 02 Oct 2018
Put through a screen LA Times Daily 22 Aug 2018
Put through a screen The Washington Post 22 Aug 2018
Free of lumps Wall Street Journal 19 Jul 2018
Search for gold, old-style Universal 29 May 2018
Comb through Universal 18 Apr 2018
Filter The Sun Two Speed 16 Mar 2018
Separate if seen in street The Sun Two Speed 16 Mar 2018
Strain New York Times 01 Mar 2018
Put through a sieve USA Today 27 Jan 2018
___ through (pore over) USA Today 10 Jan 2018
Put through a screen
Put through a sieve
Free of lumps
Search for gold, old-style
Comb through
Strain
___ through (pore over)
Cake recipe instruction Wall Street Journal 27 Dec 2017
Sieve some crumbs if too big The Sun Two Speed 21 Dec 2017
Examine carefully The Sun Two Speed 21 Dec 2017
Go through thoroughly Wall Street Journal 26 Oct 2017
Free of coarseness Wall Street Journal 07 Sep 2017
Sort of condition that's set in stone
Strain, as flour Newsday 08 Aug 2017
Search New York Times 07 Jul 2017
Strain Canadiana 03 Jul 2017
Remove lumps from, as flour USA Today 18 Jun 2017
Search (through) New York Times 02 May 2017
Remove lumps from flour Family Time 12 Mar 2017
De-lump, as flour USA Today 22 Jan 2017
Remove lumps from, as flour
De-lump, as flour
Search
Search (through)
Use a sieve on USA Today 25 Nov 2016
Make fine, as flour Universal 25 Nov 2016
Screen is upside down, has loud music and is square Irish Times Crosaire 15 Oct 2016
Sort carefully The Telegraph Quick 27 Aug 2016
Aerate, as flour The Washington Post 11 Jul 2016
Put through a sieve The Times Concise 10 May 2016
Examine carefully, as evidence The Washington Post 30 Apr 2016
Examine condition in street
Examine condition in street
Search (through), as evidence New York Times 11 Jan 2016
Strain, in a way Newsday 09 Jan 2016
Search (through), as evidence
Process, as flour Newsday 14 Dec 2015
Go (through) The Washington Post 14 Dec 2015
Separate, as flour or ashes Universal 21 Nov 2015
Go (through) New York Times 19 Jul 2015
De-lump, as flour New York Times 01 Jul 2015
Go (through) Jonesin 12 Mar 2015
Go (through) LA Times Daily 07 Feb 2015
Go (through)
De-lump, as flour
Go (through)
Sort (through)
Search (through)
Separate, as flour or ashes
Emulate a gold prospector, in a way
Process, as flour
Do a floury chore
Go (through)
Filter
Recipe directive
Go through thoroughly
Search carefully (through)
Cake recipe word
Run through small holes
Scrutinize
Examine closely
Process flour
Comb (through)
Refine, as flour
Cookbook direction
Smooth out lumps, in a way
Screen
Smooth out lumps, in a way
Separate out
Baker's verb
Sort (out)
Baker's verb
Baking instruction
Pan for gold, say
Work with flour
Pan for gold, say
Baking instruction
Free of coarseness, in a way
Make fine, in a way
Separate
Put through a sieve
Strain, as flour
Use a sieve
Sort through, as for clues
Prepare, as flour
Strain, as flour
Sort through, as for clues
Look closely (through)
Work with flour
Look (through) closely
Prepare, as flour
Sort carefully
Go through thoroughly
Put through a strainer
Scrutinize, with "through"
Go through thoroughly
Examine closely
Winnow
Put through a strainer
Baking instruction
Examine closely
Examine closely, as evidence
Process, as flour for baking
Separate, as flour or ashes
Work with flour
Cake-recipe direction
Pan for gold
Sort through
Free of coarseness
Search (through)
Work with flour
Sort through
Look through
Prepare flour
Process, as flour for baking
Look through laboriously
Sprinkle, as sugar on a cake
Use a sieve
Sort (through)
Work with flour
Look for evidence
Use a sieve
Look through
Process flour
Recipe direction
Screen
Refine, as flour
Analyze, as evidence
Examine carefully
Pan for gold
Separate with a sieve
Check carefully
Scatter, as confectioners' sugar
Look for evidence, in a way
Use a sieve
Recipe word
Recipe direction
Strain
Go through
Winnow
Search through sand
Cookbook direction
Look through laboriously
Put through a sieve
Make fine, in a way
Go (through), as evidence
Prepare the flour
Separate, as flour
Winnow
Run through a strainer
Separate, as flour
Winnow
Screen
Examine carefully
Prepare flour
Pan for gold
Search, with through
Screen
Winnow
Use a sieve
One way to find gold
Winnow
"...that he may _____ you as wheat" (Luke 22:31)
Go (through)
Remove particles from
Winnow
Examine and sort carefully
Go for the gold, maybe
Use a sieve
Analyze, as evidence
Go through
Recipe direction
Search
Separate
Search through
Sprinkle, as sugar on a cake
Go through carefully
Screen
Probe
Recipe directive
Refine, as flour
Make fluffier as flour
Separate, as flour or ashes
Investigate, in a way
Cake-recipe verb
Filter
Examine closely
Prepare flour
Sieve
Put through a strainer
Put through a sieve
Prepare flour for baking
Use a winnow
Separate carefully
Work on evidence
Cooking direction
Examine carefully
Examine critically
Examine minutely
Study, as evidence
Work with flour
Work on flour
Do a flour job
Separate.
Strain.
Examine closely.
Examine minutely.
Select, in a way.
Study thoroughly.
Sieve.
Sort
Screen.
Use a 13 Down.
Search finely.
Winnow.
Go through, as data.
Study, as clues
Mingle, as baking ingredients.
Pass through a sieve.
Examine critically.
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