Word Meanings - LIXIVIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIXIVIATE)

• Strain
• Stretch
• tighten
• force
• exert
• filter
• filtrate
• percolate
• depurate
• purify
• clarify
• defecate
• lixiviate

Related words: (words related to LIXIVIATE)

• PERCOLATE
  To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• EXERT
  out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• TIGHTENER
  That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• LIXIVIATE
  To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• FORCEMENT
  The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.
• STRETCHING
  from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.
• STRAINED
  1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
• DEPURATE
  Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. Boyle.
• FORCED
  Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more
• EXERTION
  The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion
• FILTER
  Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar
• STRETCH
  OHG. strecchen, Sw. sträcka, Dan. strække; cf. AS. stræck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps 1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in
• STRAINT
  Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
• TIGHTEN
  To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner. Just where I please, with tightened rein I'll urge thee round the dusty plain. Fawkes. Tightening pulley , a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• INFILTRATE
  To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something. The water infiltrates through the porous rock. Addison.
• INFILTER
  To filter or sift in.
• DEFORCE
  To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
• REENFORCE
  To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• REPURIFY
  To purify again.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.