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0 past simple and past participle of sift
1 to put flour, sugar, etc. through a sieve (= wire net shaped like a bowl) to break up large pieces:
When the cake is cooked, sift some icing sugar over the top of it.
2 to make a close examination of all the parts of something in order to find something or to separate what is useful from what is not:
The police are sifting the evidence very carefully to try and find the guilty person.
After my father's death, I had to sift through all his papers.
The police are trying to sift out the genuine warnings from all the hoax calls they have received.
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