Crossword-Solution: PERCOLATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Percolate | v. t. | To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. |
| Percolate | v. i. | To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PERCOLATE | anagram | PRELOCATE |
We have 20 clues for the answer “PERCOLATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| pass or filter through small holes | 1 answer |
| Water permeates sand easily | 1 answer |
| Show animation | 1 answer |
| Filter, as coffee | 1 answer |
| Filter through a porous surface | 1 answer |
| Brew, in a way | 1 answer |
| Make coffee | 3 answers |
| Prepare coffee | 3 answers |
| Simmer | 10 answers |
| ABOARD STEAMER I CAN ORDER FILTER COFFEE | 10 answers |
| Leach | 11 answers |
| CAUSE TO PASS THROUGH A PERMEABLE SUBSTANCE IN ORDER TO EXTRACT A SOLUBLE CONSTITUENT | 11 answers |
| MAKE water sound | 15 answers |
| infiltrate | 23 answers |
| Seep | 24 answers |
| impregnate | 33 answers |
| Exude | 38 answers |
| Ooze | 43 answers |
| filter | 47 answers |
| Pass through | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PERCOLATE (5)
His mind was more upon his physical suffering than upon what the mate was saying, so that quite a perceptible interval of time elapsed before the true dimensions of the affront to his dignity commenced to percolate into the befogged and pain-racked convolutions of his brain.
Some were condensing air into a dry tangible substance, by extracting the nitre, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate; others softening marble, for pillows and pin-cushions; others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse, to preserve them from foundering.
She dug another hole alongside the one containing the water, leaving a few inches of earth between them, through which the water would percolate, and collect in hole perfectly filtered.
The rain soaks through the surface; and not being able to percolate through the clay with sufficient rapidity, it lodges between the two strata, loosening the upper surface, which slides from the greasy clay; launched, as it were, by its own gravity into the valley below.
When, however, the waters with their contents were released from internal pressure and began to lose their heat the gold would be precipitated together with the salts of some other metals, and would, where the waters could percolate, begin to accretionise, thus forming the heavy or specimen gold of some reefs.
Quotes with PERCOLATE (3)
Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a sunbeam, the endearing, velvety tilt of a peach, in just such a way that she earned her living selling dreams. One simply made a selection, read it in solitude, and let it percolate till sleep. People swore they fell directly into her renderings, and one even asked if the dream writer could write a dream of dreaming forever. The dream writer could not do thi…
I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get up and walk around, eat ice cream, let ideas percolate, forget the story for a time, and then return to the page. Even the muse needs a vacation to rest up before she gives more of herself.
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1970–2018).