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elutriate (verb), elutriates; elutriated; elutriating
1. To purify, to separate, or to remove a substance or mixture by washing and settling: Joe, the miner, was elutriating the gravel mixture in order to remove the gold particles that had settled in the container that he was using.
2. To wash away the lighter or finer particles of a material: Gerhardt elutriated the finer soil from the mixture of gravel and dirt material.
This entry is located in the following unit: luto-, lut-, luv-, lu- (page 4)