EGAVE

ooze

About 0.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
  2. noun An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
  3. noun Secretion, humour.
  4. noun Juice, sap.
  5. verb To be secreted or slowly leak.
  6. verb To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
  7. noun Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
  8. noun A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.

Similar words

muck goo sludge seep seepage transude slime exude exudate gunk

Often followed by

out of from and through is in with into

Word family

oozed oozes oozing

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