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Verb: elute  ee'loot or i'loot
  1. Wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography
    "If you are watching the proteins elute from the column, they will actually emerge in the following order"

Derived forms: eluted, elutes, eluting

Type of: rinse, wash

Encyclopedia: Elute