Word.ws English Dictionary

lixiviates

lixiviates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

See all 4 meanings of lixiviate

Questions about lixiviates

What is lixiviates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lixiviates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lixiviate.

Words near lixiviates in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lixiviates (page history and authors); lixiviate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lixiviates.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lixiviates. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.