percolateverb
uk/ˈpɜː.kəl.eɪt/us/ˈpɝː.kəl.eɪt/percolate verb (LIQUID)
[ I ] If a liquid percolates, it moves slowly through a substance with very small holes in it:
Sea water percolates down through the rocks.
[ I or T ] to make coffee using a machine in which hot water passes through crushed coffee beans into a container below
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Warm drinks
- Americano
- arabica
- bed-tea
- black tea
- blended
- cocoa
- coffee
- coffee maker
- cuppa
- decaf
- hot chocolate
- how do you like...? idiom
- infuse
- infusion
- Irish coffee
- stewed
- tea
- tea ball
- teabag
- teapot
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percolate verb (INFORMATION)
[ I ] to spread slowly:
The news has begun to percolate through the staff.
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Spreading and scattering
- all over the place idiom
- bedaub
- bestrew
- billow
- circulate
- fan out
- go round (somewhere)
- go/do the rounds idiom
- radial
- radiate
- scatter
- slap
- spread
- spread out
- sprinkling
- straggle
- stretch
- strew
- suffuse
- sweep
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