Usually means: Filters gradually through a porous material.
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  1. percolates: Merriam-Webster
  2. percolates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. percolates: Vocabulary.com
  4. percolates: Wordnik
  5. percolates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. percolates: Wiktionary
  7. percolates: Dictionary.com
  8. percolates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. percolates: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. percolates: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. percolates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. percolates: Medical dictionary

(Note: See percolate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (percolate)

verb:  (transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
verb:  (intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.
verb:  (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
noun:  (rare) A liquid that has been percolated.
▸ Also see percolate


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