percolating

Verb

percolate (third-person singular simple present percolates, present participle percolating, simple past and past participle percolated)

1. (transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
   • Fluidextracts are liquid alcoholic preparations of uniform and definite strength, made by percolating drugs with menstrua, and concentrating a portion of the percolate […]1926, Joseph Price Remington, Ernest Fullerton Cook, Charles Herbert La Wall, Remington's Practice of Pharmacy
2. (intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.
   • Water percolates through sand.
3. (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator.
   • I'll percolate some coffee.
4. (intransitive) (of coffee) to be prepared by percolation; (of a coffee pot) to brew coffee in this way.
5. (figuratively, intransitive) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
   • Reports on the pitiful state of many prisons have finally percolated through to the Home Office, which has promised to look into the situation.

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