Definitions for percolate

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percolate per·co·late

Spelling: [verb pur-kuh-leyt; noun Percolate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 607 anagrams from letters in percolate (aceeloprt).

Definitions for percolate

noun

1. a percolated liquid.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
2. (of a liquid) to filter through; permeate.
3. to brew (coffee) in a percolator.

verb (used without object)

1. to pass through a porous substance; filter; ooze; seep; trickle.
2. to become percolated:
3. to become active, lively, or spirited.
4. to show activity, movement, or life; grow or spread gradually; germinate:

Origin of percolate

1620-30; Latin percōlātus, past participle of percōlāre to filter. See per-, colander, -at

Examples for percolate

Even so, a great light was beginning to percolate to my innermost consciousness.

In the U.S., it took more than a decade for the lessons to percolate from the teach-ins to the startups.

The first portion of the percolate is colorless or nearly so.

That's only seventy-five miles, and news does percolate, give it time.

Russian militants continue to percolate through the Ukrainian border, hoping their Kremlin-stoked fantasies will come true.

Novel gun control ideas continue to percolate through the commentariat.

Evaporate the percolate in a water-bath to the consistency of a pill mass.

Miss Burton paused to allow the idea to percolate into my brain.

The other was to percolate a similar quantity to get the needed caffeol.

For if the subsoil be damp, moisture will rise; if it be porous, offensive matter may percolate through.