Ooze

[Ooze]

The beauty of the word ooze is not only that it's both a noun and a verb but also that the word sounds like what it means. The ooze on the bottom of the pond oozed between your toes.

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Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

Noun
the process of seeping

Noun
any thick messy substance

Verb
release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores"

Verb
pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings


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.


Ooze

Ooze , n. [OE. wose, AS. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to ws juice, ooze, Icel. v'bes wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G. wasen.] 1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded." Shak. 2. Soft flow; spring. Prior. 3. The liquor of a tan vat.

Ooze

Ooze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Oozed ; p.pr. & vb.n. Oozing.] [Prov. Eng. weeze, wooz. See Ooze, n.] 1. To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass.
2. Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

Ooze

Ooze, v. t. To cause to ooze. Alex. Smith.

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.

To cause to ooze.

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Usage Examples

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Misspelled Form

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