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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of decant.

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Examples

  • It may not even survive being decanted from the test tube.

    Campbell’s Cream of Fantasy superversive 2006

  • -- 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.

    American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype 1853

  • 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

  • Fuckers like these should be "decanted" themselves to the dole office minus their index linked pension.

    Archive 2008-12-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • On arrival, my father would drive along the shore and park in a quiet spot while we decanted to the sandhills.

    Family life 2011

  • On arrival, my father would drive along the shore and park in a quiet spot while we decanted to the sandhills.

    Family life 2011

  • 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

  • Dear Pierre, Lucy whispered as she decanted the coffee into a long silver pot.

    Coppet, Switzerland — April 2000 Sylvia Petter 2012

  • He then decanted the pulpy slurry into an Erlenmeyer flask set atop an electric hot plate.

    Hipster Moonshine 2010

  • 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.

    REVIEW: The Spiral Labyrinth by Matthew Hughes 2010

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