Ooze
[uːz] or [uz]
Definition
(n.) Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
(n.) Soft flow; spring.
(n.) The liquor of a tan vat.
(n.) To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
(n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
(v. t.) To cause to ooze.
Typed by Lena
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mire, slime, mud.
v. n. Percolate, filter, transude, exude, strain.
Edited by Helen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Distill, drop, drip, percolate, perspire, sweat, drain, leak, transude
ANT:[See POULTICE], rush, flow, stream, disgorge
Editor: Nat
Definition
n. soft mud: gentle flow as of water through sand or earth: a kind of mud in the bottom of the ocean: the liquor of a tan vat.—v.i. to flow gently: to percolate as a liquid through pores or small openings.—adj. Ooz′y resembling ooze: slimy.
Checker: Wayne
Examples
- Patches of nasty ooze floated, yellow-white, on the dead surface of the water. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I saw the water ooze in at several crannies, although the leaks were not considerable, and I endeavoured to stop them as well as I could. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- There started up, from the gate, or from the rushes, or from the ooze (which was quite in his stagnant way), Old Orlick. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We looked at each other, and then we looked at the tide, oozing in smoothly, higher and higher, over the Shivering Sand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There is one good chance--that he will not like to feel his money oozing away, said Mrs. Cadwallader. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But Merdle, as usual, oozed sluggishly and muddily about his drawing-room, saying never a word. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The red lava of deep revolutionary fires oozed up through many glowing cracks in the political crust, and all the social strata were shaken. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The steam-engines shone with it, the dresses of the Hands were soiled with it, the mills throughout their many stories oozed and trickled it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
Checked by Jacques