Ooze

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  • noun. Soft mud or slime.
  • noun. A layer of mudlike sediment on the floor of oceans and lakes, composed chiefly of remains of microscopic sea animals.
  • noun. Muddy ground.
  • intransitive verb. To flow or leak out slowly, as through small openings.
  • intransitive verb. To disappear or ebb slowly.
  • intransitive verb. To progress slowly but steadily.
  • intransitive verb. To exude moisture.
  • intransitive verb. To emit a particular essence or quality.
  • intransitive verb. To give off; exude.
  • intransitive verb. To emit or radiate in abundance.
  • noun. The act of oozing.
  • noun. Something that oozes.
  • noun. An infusion of plant material, as from oak bark, formerly used in tanning.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently or yield easily to pressure.
  • noun. Specifically Fine calcareous mud found covering extensive areas of the floor of the ocean. This deposit is largely made up of the remains of Foraminifera.
  • noun. A soft flow; a slow spring; that which oozes.
  • noun. In tanning, a solution of tannin obtained by infusing or boiling oak-bark, sumac, catechu, or other tannin-yielding vegetable; the liquor of a tan-vat.
  • To flow as ooze; percolate, as a liquid, through the pores of a substance, or through small openings; flow in small quantities from the pores of a body: often used figuratively.
  • To drip; be wet, as with water leaking through.
  • To emit in the shape of moisture; drip.
  • noun. The short fibers on the surface of cotton thread, usually burned off in manufacture.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cause to ooze.
  • noun. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
  • noun. Soft flow; spring.
  • noun. The liquor of a tan vat.
  • noun. A soft deposit covering large areas of the ocean bottom, composed largely or mainly of the shells or other hard parts of minute organisms, as Foraminifera, Radiolaria, and diatoms. The radiolarian ooze occurring in many places in very deep water is composed mainly of the siliceous skeletons of radiolarians, calcareous matter being dissolved by the lage percentage of carbon dioxide in the water at these depths.
  • intransitive verb. To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
  • intransitive verb. Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.
  • noun. Secretion, humour.
  • noun. A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.
  • verb. To secrete or slowly leak.
  • verb. To give off a sense of (something).
  • noun. Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.
  • noun. Piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
  • verb. pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
  • noun. any thick, viscous matter
  • noun. the process of seeping
  • Word Usage
    "The danger, as sleazy stories ooze from the depths of the Web, is that traditional news outlets will find themselves spreading unsubstantiated garbage."
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    Form
    oozed  oozing  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    course  feed  flow  run  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chartreuse  Cruz  Druse  Druze  Hughes  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    algae  bog  clay  dampness  fog  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bleed  clay  discharge  drain  drip  
    verb-form
    oozed  oozes  oozing