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[ UK /pˈɜːkəlˌe‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈpɝkəˌɫeɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. spread gradually
    Light percolated into our house in the morning
  2. prepare in a percolator
    percolate coffee
  3. cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent
  4. pass through
    Water permeates sand easily
  5. gain or regain energy
    I picked up after a nap
  6. permeate or penetrate gradually
    the fertilizer leached into the ground
NOUN
  1. the product of percolation

How To Use percolate In A Sentence

  • The sunlight percolates into our classroom.
  • The hot thermal pools are fringed by extraordinarily colourful mineral deposits, while sulphurous steam percolates all around.
  • The message has begun to percolate through the organization.
  • The sunlight percolates into our classroom.
  • Our emotions swim in a soup of hormones and peptides that percolate through our whole body.
  • Water will percolate down through the soil/trash mixture and collect in the bottom.
  • The presence of shallow depressions in the ground surface allows time for water to percolate into the soil and reduces the volume and speed of flow across the slope.
  • The cold, bottom water that percolates down into the cracks in the ocean crust carries its own complement of chemicals.
  • Inevitably ideas percolate from one religion to another.
  • Water would naturally percolate through the rocks, and this would speed up the cooling of the pluton.
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