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verb
per·co·late
ˈpər-kə-ˌlāt
nonstandard
-kyə-
percolated; percolating
1
a
: to cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance (such as a powdered drug) especially for extracting a soluble constituent
b
: to prepare (coffee) in a percolator
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