strain off

To separate some liquid from a solid by filtration: After boiling the rice, I strained off the excess water in the pot. The chemist strained the water off from the top of the solution in the beaker.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tennyson	TEN-ə-sən	English (Rare)
Leopold	LE-o-pawlt (German), LAY-o-pawlt (Dutch), LEE-ə-pold (English), le-AW-pawlt (Polish)	German, Dutch, English, Slovene, Polish
FrĪDrihs	-	Latvian
Asim (2)	-	Indian, Hindi, Bengali
Bee	[bi:]
Muiredach	-	Irish