Clean
Filter
Filter verb - To remove usually visible impurities from.
Usage example: after frying the chicken, we filtered the oil and kept it in the refrigerator to use again
Clean is a synonym for filter in purify topic. You can use "Clean" instead a verb "Filter", if it concerns topics such as clarify, seep through.
Common collocations
| name | clean name | filter name |
Both words in one sentence
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At the end, the new filter breaks, forcing the dentist to clean the tank — and the rest of the fish finally escape as planned.
Source: Western Animation / Finding Nemo - At the end, the new filter breaks, forcing the dentist to clean the tank—and the rest of the fish finally escape as planned.
Source: Unspoken Plan Guarantee - Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Zig-Zagged with Gill's plan to escape the fish tank, which involves sabotaging the filter so that the dentist will have to clean the tank, during which he'll put all the fish into water-filled bags that they'll use to roll out of the office and to the ocean.
Source: Western Animation / Finding Nemo
Cite this Source
Filter and Clean. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/clean/filter
Clean & Filter. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/clean/filter>.
Filter or Clean. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/clean/filter.
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