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  • verb Present participle of decant.

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Examples

  • Love using just about anything to drink bubbly out of, but the promotion of decanting is that just to cover off for reductive bubblies (egg salad/rubbery notes) that having been showing up on the market lately?

    Charles Heidsieck wants to burst your bubble – decanting Champagne | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee allow "decanting"-the movement of money from one trust to another for the benefit of one or more of the trust beneficiaries.

    Tax Deal Trust Fund Loophole Could Save Billions For Rich - Janet Novack - Taxing Matters - Forbes 2010

  • I love the idea of decanting detergent into smaller bottles!

    this woman's work 2009

  • **Never mind the question of why some New Labour champagne socialist on a pittence of £52K a year moves into a subsidized home, after "decanting" the original residents.

    New Labour filth: Removes old people to house labour workers. FIDO The Dog 2008

  • **Never mind the question of why some New Labour champagne socialist on a pittence of £52K a year moves into a subsidized home, after "decanting" the original residents.

    Archive 2008-12-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • 'Twas nothing to the likes of them, best let well alone; and then he would cut short the churchwarden's wailings and godly lamentations by "decanting" on the glories of Fording, and the boon it was to the countryside to have the place kept up once more.

    The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

  • Have you heard of a gay sex practice called "decanting"?

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • As it happens, the best way to handle an oil spill is a process called "decanting," which describes what oil skimmers do.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • The "decanting" rules were presumably devised to help reduce the damage of an oil spill but they have been written and structured so the rules PREVENT mitigation of the damage.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • Have you heard of a gay sex practice called "decanting"?

    Chicago Reader 2010

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  • -ing form of "decant", which you have.

    It'd be nice to note the "born from an artificial womb" sense, as used in science fiction like Huxley's _Brave New World_, or more recently, Scalzi's Old Man's War series.

    March 24, 2009