percolate
pur kuh layt
- n the product of percolation
- v permeate or penetrate gradually
- v spread gradually
Light percolated into our house in the morning - v prepare in a percolator
percolate coffee - v cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent
- v pass through
- v gain or regain energy
- Their conversations percolate with menace because Tarantino plants plot elements that blossom later for maximum impact.
- He hasn't proposed a specific plan, allowing, instead, a proposal to percolate through the Congress.
- The new movie doesn't percolate with the inventive comic situations or quotable one-liners of the early, funny films.