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Percolate   /pˈərkəlˌeɪt/   Listen
Percolate

verb
(past & past part. percolated; pres. part. percolating)
1.
Permeate or penetrate gradually.  Synonym: leach.
2.
Spread gradually.
3.
Prepare in a percolator.
4.
Cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent.
5.
Pass through.  Synonyms: filter, permeate, sink in.
6.
Gain or regain energy.  Synonyms: gain vigor, perk, perk up, pick up.
noun
1.
The product of percolation.





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"Percolate" Quotes from Famous Books



... enterprise devoid of importance. While the forward spirits in Quebec were leavening the mass of the habitants with specious reports of a French fleet ready to co-operate with them, a force composed for the most part of ill-disposed Americans was to percolate into Canada from Vermont. This so-called fleet consisted of a ship, ironically called the Olive Branch, which had sailed from Ostend bound for Vermont with twenty thousand stand of arms, several pieces ...
— Old Quebec - The Fortress of New France • Sir Gilbert Parker and Claude Glennon Bryan
... no escape for the rain-water, which trickles down the sides of the ravine-like hollow, whence the steam issues, it must all percolate downwards through the fissures at its bottom. Some of the inhabitants informed me that it was on record that flames (some luminous appearance?) had originally proceeded from these cracks, and that the flames had ...
— Volcanic Islands • Charles Darwin
... name of a rather handsome bean, which possesses intoxicating qualities. To extract these it is boiled, then peeled, and new water supplied: after a second and third boiling it is pounded, and the meal taken to the river and the water allowed to percolate through it several times. Twice cooking still leaves the intoxicating quality; but if eaten then it does not cause death: it is curious that the natives do not use it expressly to produce intoxication. When planted near a tree it grows all over ...
— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 • David Livingstone
... promeni, trairi. Perambulator infanveturilo. Perceive (to see) ekvidi. Perceive senti. Percentage procento. Perceptible palpebla, sentebla. Perception (by sight) vido, videco. Perception sento. Perch (for birds, etc.) stango. Perch (fish) perko. Percolate traguti. Perdition ruinego, perdego. Peremptory absoluta. Perennial persista. Perfect perfektigi. Perfect perfekta. Perfection perfekteco. Perfidious perfida. Perfidy perfido, perfideco. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... know what percolate means, but I reckon it has something to do with travelin' about through your system. I think I need a couple of gallons myself. Say, will you give a fair answer to a ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler


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