The Collaborative International Dictionary
Percolate \Per"co*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Percolated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Percolating.] [L. percolatus, p. p. of
percolare to percolate; per through + colare to strain.]
To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to
filter; to strain.
--Sir M. Hale.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of percolate English)
Usage examples of "percolating".
The initial heat of Carter’s death had abated, and the shock of killing the three Ivets was percolating through their minds.
The circuitry for governing this old island was mapped out in his mind now, percolating up from his host.
More mist was percolating up from the highlands on either side, with long snow-white streamers spilling out through clefts in the valley walls to slither down the slope like slow-motion waterfalls.
There was a new atmosphere percolating through the dark nest of rooms.
He flailed wildly with his dagger, the other eye rolling in its socket and percolating through the flesh.
A good example of this is her analysis of why Sir John French, the previously fiery commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France, seemed unwilling to send his troops into battle: “Whether the cause was [Minister of War, Lord] Kitchener’s instructions with their emphasis on keeping the army in being and their caution against ‘losses and wastage,’ or whether it was a sudden realization percolating into Sir John French’s consciousness that behind the BEF was no national body of trained reserves to take its place, or whether on reaching the Continent within a few miles of a formidable enemy and certain battle the weight of responsibility oppressed him, or whether all along beneath his bold words and manner the natural juices of courage had been invisibly drying up.
Whether the cause was Kitchener’s instructions with their emphasis on keeping the army in being and their caution against risking “losses and wastage,” or whether it was a sudden realization percolating into Sir John French’s consciousness that behind the BEF was no national body of trained reserves to take its place, or whether on reaching the Continent within a few miles of a formidable enemy and certain battle the weight of responsibility oppressed him, or whether all along beneath his bold words and manner the natural juices of courage had been invisibly drying up, or whether, fighting on foreign soil for someone else’s homeland, it was simply a feeling of limited liability, no one who has not been in the same position can judge.
Surface water percolating downward had not dissolved the limestone as Anna once thought.
Schatz dangled his keys in front of chubby grasping fingers in lieu of paws, percolating giggles taking the place of purring.
The water must be gushing out across the top of the plaster-work, percolating down between the laths, saturating the plaster, which was darkening in several large irregular patches—gathering storm-clouds besetting the French Navy and darkening the sea from robin’s-egg blue to a more realistic iron-gray.
She lay on her bed, able to feel the slow percolating of her hormones within her.