Thesaurus:unmix

Thesaurus

unmix

English

Verb

Sense: to separate into its components

Synonyms

• affine
• demix
• fine
• purify
• refine
• separate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sift (figurative)
• winnow (figurative)
• unmix

Antonyms

• mix    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• centrifuge
• decant
• elutriate
• sift out (idiomatic)
• strain
• sublimate
• winnow
•   —
• distil
• rectify
•   —
• clarify
• fine
•   —
• riddle
• ridder
• sieve
• sift

Hypernyms

• disjoin    [⇒ thesaurus]
• purify

Hypernyms

• separate the wheat from the chaff (idiomatic)

See also

• Thesaurus:segregate

Further reading

• “42. simpleness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “unmix” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.