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lixiviated

lixiviated is the simple past and past participle of lixiviate.

Meaning of lixiviate

Verb

lixiviate (third-person singular simple present lixiviates, present participle lixiviating, simple past and past participle lixiviated)

  1. 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

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Words formed from lixiviated

Questions about lixiviated

What is lixiviated the simple past and past participle of?
Lixiviated is the simple past and past participle of lixiviate.

Words near lixiviated in the dictionary

  1. lixivia
  2. lixivial
  3. lixiviant
  4. lixiviants
  5. lixiviate
  6. lixiviated
  7. lixiviates
  8. lixiviating
  9. lixiviation
  10. lixiviations
  11. lixiviator

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