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noun
- A liquid that has been percolated.
verb (percolates, percolating, percolated)
- (transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
- (intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.
- Water percolates through sand.
- (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator.
- I'll percolate some coffee.
- (intransitive) (figurative) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
- Reports on the pitiful state of many prisons have finally perlocated through to the Home Office, which has promised to look into the situation.
- Through media reports it percolated to the suface that the police investigation was profoundly flawed.
Translations: - German: durchsickern
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Etymology: From Latin percolare, percÅlÄre (to filter)
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