percolate

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The more I let that statement percolate, the happier I get.

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  1. transitive verb To cause (liquid, for example) to pass through a porous substance or small holes; filter.
  2. transitive verb To pass or ooze through: Water percolated the sand.
  3. transitive verb To make (coffee) in a percolator.
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  • The King's malicious mind may have started to percolate, and the results of such percolations were inevitably foul. —  Question Quest
  • Let the encounter percolate, I decided, and had just hit the sack when I remembered my Mustang. —  EQMM,September-October2007
  • 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. —  Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
  • Stinson predicted that the stimulus package "is not going to jump-start the economy" because it will take time for the stimulus funds to percolate through the economy of the state and nation. —  StarTribune.com rss feed
  • Now, part of me thinks this is pure tinfoil, but if I allow the idea to percolate some, I have to start considering what would be the alternative explanation for what's being proposed, or perhaps I should say rammed down our throats? —  Latest Articles
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  1. Latin percōlāre, percōlāt- : per-, per- + cōlāre, to filter (from cōlum, sieve).

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  1. from Latin percolatus, past participle of percolare, strain through, filter, from per, through, + colare, filter, strain, from colum, a strainer, a colander: see colander.
  2. from percolate, v.
 

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