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lixiviate

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9 lettersPronunciation /lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/Sorted aeiiiltvxStarts with LEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.

Word origin

Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).

Used in a sentence

  • but we cou'd not, by this way, discern the least acidity in our arsenical solution, but rather a manifest sign of an urinous or lixiviate quality

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