I can play well on the pipe, I can prune vines, I can dig, I can plant, I can plough, and I can winnow.
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Winnow
//ˈwɪnoʊ//
Synonyms for "winnow" (140 found)
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Strong matches (42)
Related words (70)
keep apartkeep asidelay asideleachlixiviatelixiviatormake a selectionmark the interfaceoxygenateoxygenizepercolatepercolatorpickpick outpurifierpurifyput asidequarantinerectifyrefine
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refinerrefineryrefreshriddlerockerrufflescreenscreen outsecludesegregateselectseparateseparate wheat from chaffset a limitset apartset asideset offseverseveralizesievesieve outsiftsift outsiftersingle outsortsort outspiritualizesplit hairsstrainstrainersubdividesublimatesublimesubtilizethrashthrash outthreshtryventilateweighwindwinnowing basketwinnowing fanwinnowing machine
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144 translations across 63 languages.
Ainu
1 entries- ムイ noun (something that winnows)
Albanian
1 entries- përbyk verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- λικμάω verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- πτίσσω verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Arabic
4 entries- ذَرَّايَة noun (something that winnows)
- مِذْرَاة noun (something that winnows)
- مِنْفَض noun (something that winnows)
- ذَرَّى verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- sovurmaq verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Belarusian
1 entries- ве́яць verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Bikol Central
1 entries- tahop verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Breton
1 entries- gwentañ verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Bulgarian
4 entries- веялка noun (something that winnows)
- веячка noun (something that winnows)
- ве́я verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- овя verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Catalan
1 entries- ventar verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 箕 noun (something that winnows)
- 簸 verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Church Slavic
1 entries- вѣꙗти verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Czech
4 entries- fukar noun (something that winnows)
- vějička noun (something that winnows)
- čistící stroj noun (something that winnows)
- fukarovat verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Dutch
2 entries- wan noun (something that winnows)
- wannen verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Finnish
3 entries- seuloa verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
- tuultaa verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- viskata verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
French
4 entries- crible noun (something that winnows)
- tarare noun (something that winnows)
- van noun (something that winnows)
- séparer verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
Galician
4 entries- cribo noun (something that winnows)
- xoeira noun (something that winnows)
- abalear verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- alzar verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
German
4 entries- aussortieren verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
- separieren verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
- sichten verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
- trennen verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Hebrew
1 entries- זָרָה verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Ingrian
1 entries- poohtaa verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Japanese
1 entries- 箕 noun (something that winnows)
Kazakh
4 entries- ақ-қарасын ажырату verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
- екшеу verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- елеп-екшеу verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
- желпу verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Khün
1 entries- ᨺᩢ᩠ᨯ verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Korean
1 entries- 사래질하다 noun (something that winnows)
Kumyk
2 entries- веялка noun (something that winnows)
- елпивюч noun (something that winnows)
Kunigami
1 entries- 箕笊筒 noun (something that winnows)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- эсүү verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Lao
1 entries- ຝັດ verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Latin
1 entries- ventilo verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Latvian
1 entries- vētīt verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Lü
1 entries- ᦚᧆ verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Macedonian
2 entries- веалка noun (something that winnows)
- вее verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Malay
1 entries- tampi verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Miyako
1 entries- 箕 noun (something that winnows)
Māori
2 entries- kōwhiuwhiu noun (something that winnows)
- kōwhiuwhiu verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Ngazidja Comorian
2 entries- upveresa verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- utsepva verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Northern Altai
1 entries- эскин noun (something that winnows)
Northern Amami Ōshima
1 entries- さんばら noun (something that winnows)
Northern Thai
1 entries- ᨺᩢ᩠ᨯ verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Occitan
4 entries- ventador noun (something that winnows)
- analisar verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
- porgar verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- separar verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
Okinawan
1 entries- 箕笊筒 noun (something that winnows)
Okinoerabu
1 entries- はら noun (something that winnows)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- вѣꙗти verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- صاورمق verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- یابالامق verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Persian
1 entries- غربال کردن verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Polish
4 entries- wiejadło noun (something that winnows)
- odsiać verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
- odsiewać verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
- wiać verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Portuguese
3 entries- joeira noun (something that winnows)
- joeirar verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- joeirar verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
Russian
4 entries- ве́ялка noun (something that winnows)
- ве́ять verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- отве́ивать verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- отве́ять verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Shan
1 entries- ၽတ်း verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Slovak
1 entries- viať verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Southern Altai
4 entries- веялка noun (something that winnows)
- эскин noun (something that winnows)
- собырар verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- эзер verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Spanish
4 entries- ahechar verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- cribar verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- cribar verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
- hacer la criba verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
Swedish
1 entries- sålla verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
Tamil
4 entries- முறம் noun (something that winnows)
- தூற்று verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- நேம்பு verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- பகு verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
Telugu
1 entries- చెరుగు verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Thai
1 entries- ฝัด verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Tokunoshima
1 entries- はーら noun (something that winnows)
Turkish
4 entries- atkı noun (something that winnows)
- yaba noun (something that winnows)
- ayırmak verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
- harman savurmak verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Ukrainian
3 entries- віялка noun (something that winnows)
- ві́яти verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- відсівати verb (figuratively: to separate, sift, analyze, test)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sàng verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Yaeyama
1 entries- 笊筒 noun (something that winnows)
Yonaguni
1 entries- 御御 noun (something that winnows)
Yoruba
2 entries- fẹ́ verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
- fẹ́kà verb (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
[W]ind began to winnow the river delta's dried sediments.
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They winnowed the field to twelve.
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They winnowed the winners from the losers.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.