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Seep

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Noun, Verb (intransitive)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb Seep has 1 sense

seep(v = verb.motion) ooze - pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings; Array

is one way to course, feed, flow, run

Derived form noun seepage₁

Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Seep, v. i. [AS. sīpan to distill.].

To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze. [1913 Webster]

"Water seeps up through the sidewalks." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Seep, v. & n.
--v.intr. ooze out; percolate slowly.
--n. US a place where petroleum etc. oozes slowly out of the ground.

Etymology

perh. dial. form of OE sipian to soak

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THESAURUS

Seep

bleed, condense, discharge, distill, dribble, drip, dripple, drop, effuse, emit, excrete, exfiltrate, extravasate, exudate, exude, filter, filtrate, flow, give off, gurgle, leach, leak, lixiviate, ooze, percolate, reek, sew, spurtle, strain, sweat, transpire, transude, trickle, weep

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