elute
📖 Definitions
verb tr.
To wash out or extract, especially with a solvent.
💬 Usage Examples
“The caustic solvent of intercontinental travel has eluted away the fragile coating of polite civility each of them wears when at his unstressed best, leaving bare the chafed prickliness of self-justified irritability familiar to all who over-indulge in time zones.” John Mickey; Ultimatum Day; iUniverse; 2006.