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lixiviating

lixiviating is the present participle and gerund 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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Questions about lixiviating

What is lixiviating the present participle and gerund of?
Lixiviating is the present participle and gerund of lixiviate.

Words near lixiviating in the dictionary

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

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