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How to pronounce percolate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms leach
Type of trickle, dribble, filter
Derivation percolation
Type Words
Synonyms filter, permeate, sink in
Type of perforate, penetrate
Has types infiltrate
Derivation percolation
Type Words
Synonyms gain vigor, perk, perk up, pick up
Type of recover, recuperate, convalesce
Type Words
Derivation percolation
Type Words
Derivation percolator, percolation


percolate coffee.
Type Words
Type of fan out, diffuse, spread, spread out


Light percolated into our house in the morning.
Type Words
Type of filtrate

Examples of percolate

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The idea continues to percolate, but has not resonated with a majority of owners.
From the washingtonpost.com
Things need to percolate a bit before they are ready to be examined more closely.
From the kansas.com
The intense searing prompted the fatty juices to percolate upward as it cooked.
From the ocregister.com
Now, the implications of that, of course, percolate and resonate around the world.
From the voanews.com
A big one is falling oil prices, which percolate through the economy like tax cuts.
From the kansas.com
Will the effort percolate through the whole $18 billion U.S. coffee industry?
From the time.com
Perhaps the experiences will percolate and yield great things down the road.
From the washingtonpost.com
Mr Clinton says it needs time for the idea to percolate, among both nations.
From the economist.com
Meanwhile, backlash from Auburn's hiring of Chizik continued to percolate nationally.
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More examples
  • The product of percolation
  • Leach: permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into the ground"
  • Spread gradually; "Light percolated into our house in the morning"
  • Cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent
  • Pass through; "Water permeates sand easily"
  • Perk up: gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap"
  • PeRColate is an open source set of extensions to Max/MSP, developed by Dan Trueman at Princeton University and R. Luke DuBois at the Computer Music Center, Columbia University. ...
  • A liquid that has been percolated; To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter; To drain or seep through a porous substance; To make (coffee) in a percolator; (figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised
  • (Percolating) Sound a pig makes that is in "investigative mode" general sound while out on the floor.