Definitions for percolates

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percolates per·co·late

Spelling: [verb pur-kuh-leyt; noun Percolates is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1375 anagrams from letters in percolates (aceeloprst).

Definitions for percolates

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 percolates

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

Examples for percolates

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

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

Novel gun control ideas continue to percolate through the commentariat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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