lixiviate
/lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/
lixiviate verb: to separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
Verb
lixiviate (third-person singular simple present lixiviates, present participle lixiviating, simple past and past participle lixiviated)
- To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
- […]the Slaves are out in the Storm, doing their Owners’ Laundry, observing and reading each occurrence of Blood, Semen, Excrement, Saliva, Urine, Sweat, Road-Mud, dead Skin, and other such Data of Biography, whose pure form they practice Daily, before all is lixiviated ’neath Heaven.1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 88–89
Adjective
lixiviate (comparative more lixiviate, superlative most lixiviate)
- Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
- Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.
- but we cou'd not, by this way, discern the least acidity in our arsenical solution, but rather a manifest sign of an urinous or lixiviate quality1685, Robert Boyle, Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters
Noun
lixiviate (plural lixiviates)
lixiviate meaning in Tamil
lixiviate in Tamil
- கரைசத்திபற்றிப்பிரித்தல்
Forms of lixiviate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | lixiviates |
| present participle | lixiviating |
| past participle | lixiviated |
| past | lixiviated |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more lixiviate |
| superlative | most lixiviate |
| Noun | |
| plural | lixiviates |
Origin of lixiviate
Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).
Words formed from lixiviate
Questions about lixiviate
- What does lixiviate mean?
- Lixiviate means to separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
- What is lixiviate in Tamil?
- Lixiviate in Tamil is கரைசத்திபற்றிப்பிரித்தல். See Lixiviate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is lixiviate?
- Lixiviate can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce lixiviate?
- Lixiviate is pronounced /lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/.
- What is the past tense of lixiviate?
- The past tense of lixiviate is lixiviated.
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