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sift
Old English
siftan
"pass something through a sieve," related to
sife
(see
sieve
). Cf. Dutch
ziften
, Middle Low German
sichten
, German
sichten
"to sift." Metaphoric sense of "look carefully through" first recorded 1530s.
