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UK
/pˈɜːkəlˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈpɝkəˌɫeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈpɝkəˌɫeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
spread gradually
Light percolated into our house in the morning -
prepare in a percolator
percolate coffee - cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent
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pass through
Water permeates sand easily -
gain or regain energy
I picked up after a nap -
permeate or penetrate gradually
the fertilizer leached into the ground
NOUN
- the product of percolation
How To Use percolate In A Sentence
- The sunlight percolates into our classroom.
- Then we learnt how coffee was harvested, roasted, percolated, espressed and consumed.
- Ideas had begun to percolate the moment she'd rescued Fancy. PAINT THE WIND
- There is a perceptible change in the party's outlook which will soon percolate down to the basic worker.
- From the late 14th century until the early 16th century woolmen based in Northleach collected the wool from Turkdean for sale to London merchants and the agents of European wool buyers whose appreciation of the quality of Cotswold wool percolated into significantly increased prosperity for the Northleach merchants and the sheep-based farmers of the surrounding parishes.
- So those could be living down the cracks underneath the surface but the gasses will still percolate upwards.
- When I met Laure in a hotel bar, she wore a forest green sweater, shades and percolated with the sensual energy familiar from all her past movies.
- The rocks or stones at the pool boundary retain the bog-garden soil yet allow water to percolate through from the pool.
- But the Wekiva watershed - and its springshed, the area where surface water percolates into the aquifer and recharges the springs - is hardly pristine.
- In any plant concoction such as percolated 'tea', there are 30-40,000 compounds, whi ch would take the scientific community twenty years to isolate one particular ingredient if they knew what they were looking for. Onkabetse HIV Awareness Campaign