Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.
- 2intransitive verb
To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
- 3noun
the product of percolation
- 4verb
gain or regain energy
"I picked up after a nap"
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- 5verb
pass through
"Water permeates sand easily"
- 6verb
cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent
- 7verb
prepare in a percolator
"percolate coffee"
- 8verb
spread gradually
"Light percolated into our house in the morning"
- 9verb
permeate or penetrate gradually
"the fertilizer leached into the ground"
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