bathe vs lixiviate

bathe

verb
  • To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid. 

  • She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical. 

  • To sunbathe. 

  • To cover or surround. 

  • To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. 

  • To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath. 

  • To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. 

noun
  • The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath. 

lixiviate

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

adj
  • Impregnated with salts from wood ashes. 

  • Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts. 

noun
  • leachate 

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