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The process by which we allow the tea bag to sit and swell, releasing it's juices into the hot water undisturbed, is called steeping.

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The tea spreads from the tea bag by diffusion.

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It is known as dunking (either as dunking a teabag or dunking a biscuit in your tea).

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