percolate

[Per·co*late]

When something percolates, it spreads gradually. If the news of your victory in the spelling bee spread slowly through your entire school, you could sit back and enjoy watching it percolate.

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To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

Noun
the product of percolation

Verb
gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap"

Verb
pass through; "Water permeates sand easily"

Verb
cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent

Verb
prepare in a percolator; "percolate coffee"

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Verb
spread gradually; "Light percolated into our house in the morning"

Verb
permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into the ground"


v. t.
To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

v. i.
To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.


Percolate

Per"co*late , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Percolated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Percolating.] [L. percolatus, p.p. of percolare to percolate; per through + colare to strain.] To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.

Percolate

Per"co*late, v. i. To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.

To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.

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