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Percolate

verb

(past & past part. percolated; pres. part. percolating)

Permeate or penetrate gradually. Synonym: leach.

Spread gradually.

Prepare in a percolator.

Cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent.

Pass through. Synonyms: filter, permeate, sink in.

Gain or regain energy. Synonyms: gain vigor, perk, perk up, pick up.

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"Percolate" Quotes from Famous Books

... settled down in earnest and rained steadily for a month; sometimes it merely drizzled, at other times it poured; but it never stopped, except for an hour or so. The constant tramp of many feet speedily churned into mud the clay turf overlaying the chalk, and the rain could not percolate through this mixture as it did the unbroken sod. In a few days the mud was one inch—four inches—and even a foot deep. Many a time I waded through mud ...

— On the Fringe of the Great Fight • George G. Nasmith

... nor advantage in using dynamite in a soil that is loose and sandy to a depth of three or four feet. The weakness of this soil is that it allows water to percolate through it too rapidly, hence dynamite would be harmful rather than helpful under such conditions, but no matter how loose the top soil or plowed soil may be, if it is underlaid by more or less impervious clay, or even a heavy ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting - Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913 • Various

... question of time when the spring will be filled to the brim with earth. Then gradually the seed blown over the surface of the spring from the weeds and grass near by will take root, and, in the course of a few years, a strong turf will be formed, through which the water may percolate in many places, though giving to the unsuspecting traveler no sign of its treacherous character. I think that it was through such a turf as this that the fore legs of my horse and ...

— The Discovery of Yellowstone Park • Nathaniel Pitt Langford

... Germany would no longer hold its prisoners incommunicado, Ruth hoped that news about the imprisoned performers of the Wild West Show might percolate through the lines. Chief Totantora had been able but once to get a ...

— Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest - Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies • Alice B. Emerson

... George, who stayed in Paris, were forbidden to visit Entente countries, even for the purpose of attending the death-bed of a relative. Entente subjects visiting Switzerland were forbidden to go near them: lest any particle of the truth should percolate. Until the end of the War they lived segregated, shunned, and spied upon like malefactors. During the Liberal regime in Greece, while Italian and Swiss hotels flourished all the year round on Royalist refugees, ...

— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott

Words linked to "Percolate" : recover, perk, fan out, percolator, perforate, filter, gain vigor, diffuse, penetrate, trickle, spread out, spread, convalesce, filtrate, dribble, percolation, infiltrate, recuperate