ooze
verb
[ uːz ]
• (of a fluid) slowly trickle or seep out of something.
• "blood was oozing from a wound in his scalp"
Similar:
seep,
discharge,
flow,
exude,
trickle,
drip,
dribble,
issue,
filter,
percolate,
escape,
leak,
drain,
empty,
bleed,
sweat,
well,
leach,
extravasate,
filtrate,
transude,
exudate,
• give a powerful impression of (a quality).
• "she oozes a raunchy sex appeal"
Similar:
exude,
gush,
drip,
pour forth,
give out,
send out,
emit,
breathe,
let loose,
display,
exhibit,
demonstrate,
manifest,
ooze
noun
• the sluggish flow of a fluid.
• "I picked a fruit and watched the ooze of fig milk from the stem"
Similar:
seepage,
seeping,
discharge,
flow,
exudation,
trickle,
trickling,
drip,
dribble,
filtration,
percolation,
excretion,
escape,
leak,
leakage,
drainage,
emptying,
bleeding,
sweating,
welling,
leaching,
secretion,
extravasation,
• an infusion of oak bark or other vegetable matter, used in tanning.
Similar:
mud,
slime,
alluvium,
silt,
mire,
bog,
sludge,
slush,
muck,
dirt,
deposit,
clag,
clart,
slob,
Origin:
Old English wōs ‘juice or sap’; the verb dates from late Middle English.
ooze
noun
• wet mud or slime, especially that found at the bottom of a river, lake, or sea.
• "abandoned barges sunk in ooze"
Origin:
Old English wāse ; related to Old Norse veisa ‘stagnant pool’. In Middle English and the 16th century the spelling was wose (rhyming with repose ), but from 1550 spellings imply a change in pronunciation and influence by ooze1.
