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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Percolate" Quotes from Famous Books



... He would talk to all the men at the garage, and from South Audley Street the tit-bit of scandal would percolate ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer

... a minute for Marty's announcement to really percolate to his cousin's understanding. She stared dumbly at the red vest, which was about all she could see of the man in Don Jos['e] Almoreda Tomas Sauceda Pez's store, and then turned to ...
— The Mission of Janice Day • Helen Beecher Long

... Press agreed, but replied that the country through which it would have to go was impassable even for an Indian on a pony. The Cowboy declared that "the Dickinson road strikes gumbo from the start"; and the Press with fine scorn answered, "This causes a smile to percolate our features. From our experience in the Bad Lands we know that after a slight rain a man can carry a whole quarter-section off on his boots, and we don't wear number twelves either." The Cowboy insisted that the Dickinson route "is at best a poor one and at certain seasons impassable." ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn



Words linked to "Percolate" :   perforate, leach, infiltrate, percolation, filter, convalesce, trickle, spread out, sink in, dribble, recuperate, perk, fan out, diffuse



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