MEANING
1. To pour a liquid into another container, often leaving sediment behind.
2. To move people or activities out of a building, usually while work is carried out there.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- decant wine
- decant a solution
On the page
He decanted the wine without disturbing the dark deposit.
She decanted the clear solution into a narrow glass flask.
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Word forms
- Base
- decant
- Past tense
- decanted
- Past participle
- decanted
- Present participle
- decanting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- decant
- Present continuous
- am/is/are decanting
- Present perfect
- have/has decanted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been decanting
- Past
- decanted
- Past continuous
- was/were decanting
- Past perfect
- had decanted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been decanting
- Future
- will decant
- Future continuous
- will be decanting
- Future perfect
- will have decanted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been decanting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: decant; decants; decanted; decanted; decanting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: decants.
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