Definition of "lixiviate" []

• To wash or percolate the soluble matter from. (verb-transitive)

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• "They lixiviate the soil and boil the water, which has filtered through a bunch of grass in a hole in the bottom of a pot, till all is evaporated and a mass of salt left."
• "Javita lixiviate also the ashes of the famous liana called cupana, which is a new species of the genus paullinia, consequently a very different plant from the cupania of Linnaeus."
• "They lixiviate the soil and boil the water, which has filtered through"