percolate

1. (transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.Examples: "Fluidextracts are liquid alcoholic preparations of uniform and definite strength, made by percolating drugs with menstrua, and concentrating a portion of the percolate […]"transitive

2. (intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.Examples: "Water percolates through sand."intransitive

3. (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator.Examples: "I'll percolate some coffee."; "Boiled, percolated, pressed, or filtered, black coffee ranges from a light tea-like drink to deep black brew."transitive

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.Examples: "Reports on the pitiful state of many prisons have finally percolated through to the Home Office, which has promised to look into the situation."; "Through media reports it percolated to the surface that the police investigation was profoundly flawed."; "[…] so that quite a perceptible interval of time elapsed before the true dimensions of the affront to his dignity commenced to percolate into the befogged and pain-racked convolutions of his brain."figurativelyintransitive