Usually means: Deposit minerals in lower layers.
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  1. illuviate: Merriam-Webster
  2. illuviate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. illuviate: Wiktionary
  4. illuviate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. illuviate: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. illuviate: Dictionary.com
  7. illuviate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (illuviate)

▸ verb:  (geology) To leach from an overlying stratum and accumulate in suspension.

Similar:
alluviate, atterrate, colluviate, uppile, flow, suffuse, inundate, overflow, overflush, infoliate, more...

Opposite:
deluviate, alluviate, levigate, abrade

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Similar:
alluviate, atterrate, colluviate, uppile, flow, suffuse, inundate, overflow, overflush, infoliate, more...

Opposite:
deluviate, alluviate, levigate, abrade



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