sieve
verb/sɪv/
/sɪv/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they sieve | /sɪv/ /sɪv/ |
| he / she / it sieves | /sɪvz/ /sɪvz/ |
| past simple sieved | /sɪvd/ /sɪvd/ |
| past participle sieved | /sɪvd/ /sɪvd/ |
| -ing form sieving | /ˈsɪvɪŋ/ /ˈsɪvɪŋ/ |
- sieve something to put something through a sieve
- Liquidize or sieve half the soup and return it to the pot.
- The compost is heavy and has been sieved to eliminate stones and twigs.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySieve is used with these nouns as the object:- flour
Word OriginOld English sife (noun), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeef and German Sieb.Want to learn more?
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