PERCOLATE


Meaning of PERCOLATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pɜ:(r)kəleɪt ]

( percolates, percolating, percolated)

1.

If an idea, feeling, or piece of information percolates through a group of people or a thing, it spreads slowly through the group or thing.

New fashions took a long time to percolate down.

...all of these thoughts percolated through my mind.

VERB : V prep / adv , V prep / adv

2.

When you percolate coffee or when coffee percolates , you prepare it in a percolator.

She percolated the coffee and put croissants in the oven to warm.

VERB : V n , also V

3.

To percolate somewhere means to pass slowly through something that has very small holes or gaps in it.

Rain water will only percolate through slowly.

VERB : V prep / adv

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