The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word STRAINED , but the solution may also be SEEPED which is one of the most recent solution (2002 in New York Times).
Filtered crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STRAINED | 44 % | 8 |
| OOZED | 11 % | 5 |
| PERCOLATED | 11 % | 10 |
| SIEVED | 11 % | 6 |
| SEEPED | 11 % | 6 |
| SCREENED | 11 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Filtered
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- filtrate
- filter out
- percolate
- permeate
- trickle
- sink in
- strain
- dribble
- separate out
- filtration
- screening
- strained
Crossword Answer definitions
STRAINED verb- To hold tightly, to clasp.
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- To percolate; to be filtered.
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- To urge with importunity; to press.
- Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
- Forced through a strainer.
- Under tension; tense.
- Not natural or spontaneous but done with effort
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result STRAINED
- Stretched to the limit
- Emulated Sisyphus, in a way
- Like some relations
- Applied elbow grease
- Tense, as relations
- Hardly harmonious
- Prepared baby food
- Like much baby food
- Filtered.
- Tense.
More clues leading to the result OOZED
- Seeped
- Leaked out
- Moved like 48-Across
- Gave off
- Exuded moisture
- Seeped slowly
- Moved like The Blob
- Percolated
- Exuded, as moisture
- Moved like molasses
More clues leading to the result PERCOLATED
More clues leading to the result SIEVED
- Did some straining
- Used a winnow
- Used a strainer
- Put through a strainer
- Filtered
- Sifted
- Strained
- Pureed.
- Sifted.
- Strained.
More clues leading to the result SEEPED
- Flowed slowly
- Oozed
- Infiltrated
- Leaked
- Passed through pores
- Flowed through a narrow opening
- Leaked through slowly
- Slipped through the cracks
- Passed gradually
- Leaked slowly