ooze
IPA: ˈuz
noun
- Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
- An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
- (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
- (obsolete) Juice, sap.
- Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
- (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
- A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.
verb
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To be secreted or slowly leak.
- (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
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Examples of "ooze" in Sentences
- The hatred oozes out between the words.
- The most famous ooze is the gelatinous cube.
- The cell seemed to ooze forward under the particle.
- The evidence is that protocells arose from the ooze.
- Later, his father finds the jar and inspects the ooze.
- The blob starts to ooze in under the door but then retreats.
- The pulsating gelatinous ooze is a resident of an arachnid grove.
- This slimy ooze becomes toxic to the bark and eats into the tree.
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