Synonyms of the word

percolate

• v. (transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
• v. (intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.
• v. (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
• n. (rare) A liquid that has been percolated.

convalesce

• v. To recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness.

diffuse

• v. (transitive) To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or…
• v. (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion…
• adj. Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.

dribble

• v. To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool.
• v. To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle.
• v. In various ball games, to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet.
• v. (basketball) To bounce the ball on the floor with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with…
• v. To advance by dribbling.
• v. (transitive) to let something fall in drips.
• v. (transitive) in various ball games, to move the ball by repeated light kicks so as not to lose control…
• v. (dated) To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
• n. A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
• n. A small amount of a liquid.
• n. In sport, the act of dribbling.

filter

• n. A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other…
• n. Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that…
• n. Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
• n. (figuratively) self-restraint in speech.
• n. (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary…
• v. (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
• v. (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
• v. (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
• v. (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road.

filtrate

• n. The liquid or solution that has passed through a filter, and which has been separated from the filtride.
• v. To filter.

leach

• n. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
• n. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
• n. (nautical) Alternative spelling of leech.
• v. (transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
• v. (intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

penetrate

• v. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
• v. (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
• v. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
• v. To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
• v. To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.

percolate

• v. (transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
• v. (intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.
• v. (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
• n. (rare) A liquid that has been percolated.

perforate

• v. to pierce; to penetrate.
• v. to make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line.
• adj. (philately, biology) perforated.

perk

• n. (informal) Perquisite.
• v. (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
• v. (intransitive) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
• n. A percolator, particularly of coffee.
• v. To become more lively or enthusiastic.
• v. To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
• v. To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
• adj. Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.
• v. (dated) To peer; to look inquisitively.

permeate

• v. (transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing…
• v. (transitive) To enter and spread through; to pervade.
• n. A watery by-product of milk production.
• n. Liquid that has passed through a filtration system.

recover

• v. (transitive) To get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc.).
• v. (transitive) To return to, resume (a given state of mind or body).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To get better from; to get over.
• v. (intransitive) To get better, regain one's health.
• v. (intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.
• v. (intransitive, law) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit.
• v. (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation.
• v. (transitive, law) To gain by legal process.
• n. (obsolete) Recovery.
• n. (military) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and…
• v. To cover again.
• v. (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.

recuperate

• v. To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
• v. (sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use.

spread

• v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
• v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• n. The act of spreading.
• n. Something that has been spread.
• n. An expanse of land.
• n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
• n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
• n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
• n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
• n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
• n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
• n. A numerical difference.
• n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
• n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
• n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
• n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
• n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
• n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
• n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

trickle

• n. A very thin river.
• n. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
• v. (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
• v. (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
• v. (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.