percolate

percolate is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.
2. intransitive verb. To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
3. noun. the product of percolation
4. verb. gain or regain energy

   "I picked up after a nap"

   Synonyms: perk

5. verb. pass through

   "Water permeates sand easily"

   Synonyms: filter, permeate

6. verb. cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent
7. verb. prepare in a percolator

   "percolate coffee"

8. verb. spread gradually

   "Light percolated into our house in the morning"

9. verb. permeate or penetrate gradually

   "the fertilizer leached into the ground"

   Synonyms: leach

Synonyms

perk, filter, permeate, leach

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in percolate:

prelocate

Common word forms

percolated, percolates, percolating

Words from these letters

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