Crossword-Solution: SIFT 4 letters, 187 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Sift	v. t.	To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
Sift	v. t.	To separate or part as if with a sieve.
Sift	v. t.	To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SIFT	anagram	FIST, FITS

We have 187 clues for the answer “SIFT”

Clue	Answers
"...that he may _____ you as wheat" (Luke 22:31)	1 answer
Aerate, as flour	1 answer
Analyze, as evidence	1 answer
Break up the lumps	1 answer
Cake-recipe direction	1 answer
De-clump, as flour	1 answer
De-clump, as flour for baking	1 answer
De-lump, as flour	1 answer
De-lump, like flour	1 answer
Do a flour job	1 answer
Do a flour task	1 answer
Do a floury chore	1 answer
Emulate a gold prospector, in a way	1 answer
Examine and sort carefully	1 answer
Examine closely, as evidence	1 answer
Filter, as flour	1 answer
Flour instruction	1 answer
Free of coarse bits	1 answer
Free of coarseness	1 answer
Free of coarseness, in a way	1 answer
Go (through) carefully	1 answer
Go (through), as clues	1 answer
Go (through), as evidence	1 answer
Go through, as data.	1 answer
Investigate, in a way	1 answer
Look (through) closely	1 answer
Look for evidence, in a way	1 answer
Look through laboriously	1 answer
Make airier, as flour	1 answer
Make fine, as flour	1 answer
Make fine, in a way	1 answer
Make finer, in a way	1 answer
Make fluffier as flour	1 answer
Mingle, as baking ingredients.	1 answer
One way to find gold	1 answer
PASS through riddle	1 answer
Pan for gold, e.g.	1 answer
Pan for gold, say	1 answer
Pass through a sieve	1 answer
Prep flour	1 answer
Prepare flour	1 answer
Prepare flour for baking	1 answer
Prepare the flour	1 answer
Prepare, as flour	1 answer
Prepare, like flour	1 answer
Process flour	1 answer
Process, as flour	1 answer
Process, as flour for baking	1 answer
Put through a screen	1 answer
Put through a strainer, as flour	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

EARA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with SIFT (5)

Then a little faint breeze struck us, and then it come harder, and grains of sand begun to sift against our faces and sting like fire, and Tom sung out: “It’s a sand-storm—turn your backs to it!” [Illustration: “In the sand-storm”] We done it; and in another minute it was blowing a gale, and the sand beat against us by the shovelful, and the air was so thick with it we couldn’t see a thing.

Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Vitus’s Dance—found, as I expected, that I had that too,—began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically—read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight.

Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1995

Robertson, and by him had been set to work on some papers of an ancient date to rearrange and sift of what was worthless; and in one of these, to my great wonder, I found a note of this very ship, the _Espirito Santo_, with her captain’s name, and how she carried a great part of the Spaniard’s treasure, and had been lost upon the Ross of Grisapol; but in what particular spot, the wild tribes of that place and period would give no information to the king’s inquiries.

The Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1995

Then ensued another pause, as though to give the invisible scene-shifter time to accomplish his work, followed by a shower of evening coolness, that seemed to sift through the trees like a soft and gentle rain.

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1996

LIV "Reason demonstrates with what peril fraught His case, not more with death than lasting stain, If in the castle were that murder taught; Nor any time has he to sift his brain.

Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996

Quotes with SIFT (3)

The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried.

Annie Dillard Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way- A perfectly vile and foul Inversion of all that's been. What the old ratbags mean Is I've never done what I don't.So the shit in the shuttered chateau Who does his five hundred words Then parts out the rest of the day Between bathing and booze and birds Is far off as ever, but so Is that spectacled schoolteaching sod(Six kids, and the wife in pod, And he…

Philip Larkin Philip Larkin Poetry

This is freedom. This is the face of faith, nobody getswhat they want. Never again are you the same. The longingis to be pure. What you get is to be changed. More and more byeach glistening minute, through which infinity threads itself. Also oblivion, of course, the aftershocks of somethingat sea. Here hands full of sand, letting it sift through in the wind, I look in and say take this, hurry. And if I listennow? Listen, I was not saying anything. It was onlysomething I did. …

Jorie Graham Never

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 266 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).