Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense winnows, present participle winnowing, past tense, past participle winnowed
VERB 筛选;遴选 If you winnow a group of things or people, you reduce its size by separating the ones that are useful or relevant from the ones that are not. 筛选;遴选 [literary]
Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three. [VERB noun]