Usually means: Dissolve out substances by percolation.
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  1. lixiviate: Merriam-Webster
  2. lixiviate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lixiviate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lixiviate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lixiviate: Wordnik
  6. lixiviate: Wiktionary
  7. lixiviate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. lixiviate: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. lixiviate: Dictionary.com
  10. Lixiviate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. lixiviate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Lixiviate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. lixiviate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. lixiviate: FreeDictionary.org
  15. lixiviate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lixiviate: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lixiviate)

verb:  To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
adjective:  Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
adjective:  Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.
noun:  leachate

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