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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
decant .
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Examples
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It may not even survive being decanted from the test tube.
Campbell’s Cream of Fantasy superversive 2006
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-- A flask of distilled water is saturated with cyanide of mercury, and a certain quantity is decanted, which is diluted with an equal quantity of distilled water.
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Fuckers like these should be "decanted" themselves to the dole office minus their index linked pension.
New Labour filth: Removes old people to house labour workers. FIDO The Dog 2008
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Fuckers like these should be "decanted" themselves to the dole office minus their index linked pension.
Archive 2008-12-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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On arrival, my father would drive along the shore and park in a quiet spot while we decanted to the sandhills.
Family life 2011
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On arrival, my father would drive along the shore and park in a quiet spot while we decanted to the sandhills.
Family life 2011
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But as soon as they'd decanted families into the new homes the old ones filled up.
Essex resort of Jaywick named England's most deprived town 2011
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Dear Pierre, Lucy whispered as she decanted the coffee into a long silver pot.
Coppet, Switzerland — April 2000 Sylvia Petter 2012
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He then decanted the pulpy slurry into an Erlenmeyer flask set atop an electric hot plate.
Hipster Moonshine 2010
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Two of them are major characters that complement Hapthorn's reasoning skills: his Integrator, which started as an all-knowing computer but has since been decanted into an ape/cat-like creature called a grinnet; and his intuitive other-self which occupies the recesses of his mind - a personality known as Osk Rievor.
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