Definition of "sifted" [sifted]

• Having been sifted. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of sift. (verb)

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• "Immediately roll the truffles in sifted cocoa powder, icing sugar or finely chopped nuts"
• "Using wooden spoon, gently stir in sifted flour and milk."
• "All that was left of the 1667 Brick Chapel in Maryland's first Colonial capital were its huge, 3-foot-thick brick foundation and thousands of fragments of glass, lead, brick and plaster sifted from the soil during 20 years of painstaking archaeology."