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Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To sift again.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. sift anew

Etymologies

  1. re- +‎ sift (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “I have a feeling they ` re going to resift the area.”

    CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2009

  • “The door is open for Barwell, the Tory Fixer, in Croydon Central, taking pressure off Maidstone for an unsift and a resift.”

    Iain Dale: Doughty Street's Goose is Cooked

  • “Iain Dale was shafted by this system, following a bloody great row and a resift.”

    Maidstone and the Weald: Dale Over and Out

  • “Sift the flour and salt together and resift into the butter mixture.”

    Firedoglake » Pull Up a Chair…

  • “And the mayor says the city does not plan to resift the now buried debris.”

    CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2003

  • “They want the city to resift the debris, so they can bury the ashes at the World Trade Center Memorial.”

    CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2003

  • “Figures, figures, thousands of figures to sift and resift.”

    Half a Rogue

  • “Peace, ye Patriots, nevertheless; and let that tocsin cease: the Debate is not finished, nor the Report accepted; but Brissot, Isnard and the Mountain will sift it, and resift it, perhaps for some three weeks longer.”

    The French Revolution

  • “When one considers impartially, the merit of a rich suit of clothes in most places, the respect and the smiles of favour it procures, not to speak of the envy and the sighs it occasions (which is very often the principal charm to the wearer), one is forced to confess, that there is need of an uncommon understanding to resift the temptation of pleasing friends and mortifying rivals; and that it is natural to young people to fall into a folly, which betrays them to that want of money which is the source of a thousand basenesses (sic).”

    Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e

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