winnow out

• Trennen oder Entfernen unerwünschter oder untauglicher Elemente aus einer Gruppe oder Menge, meist durch Auswahl der brauchbaren Teile.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of removing or separating unwanted or inferior elements from a group or collection.

unzählbar · transitiv · Phrasal, trennbar

1. Remove unwanted elementsformal

   To separate or eliminate undesirable or less important parts from a group.

   Aussortieren

   • The committee will winnow out the weakest applications.
   • We need to winnow out irrelevant data from the report.
   • The selection process helps winnow out unqualified candidates.

   Synonymeculleliminatefilter outremovescreen outseparate outweed out

   Antonymeincludekeeppreserveretain

Grundverbwinnow