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Meaning of lixiviate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
lɪkˈsɪvieɪt

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Polski ługować zolić

Examples

“[…]the Slaves are out in the Storm, doing their Owners’ Laundry, observing and reading each occurrence of Blood, Semen, Excrement, Saliva, Urine, Sweat, Road-Mud, dead Skin, and other such Data of Biography, whose pure form they practice Daily, before all is lixiviated ’neath Heaven.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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