separate out

1. 1.

   remove by passing through a filter

   “filter out the impurities”

   Synonymsfilterfiltratestrainfilter out

   Broaderseparate

Questions about separate out

What does separate out mean?

separate out means "remove by passing through a filter".

What is another word for separate out?

Close synonyms include filter, filtrate, strain, filter out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is separate out a common word?

separate out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.