seep
IPA: sˈip
noun
- A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
- Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
- The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
- A seafloor vent.
verb
- (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
- (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.
- (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
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Examples of "seep" in Sentences
- I guess that's my tiredness seeping in.
- It lives in cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico.
- The contaminated rainwater seeped into the river.
- The contaminated rainwater then seeped into the river.
- I mean, the acid didn't just seep into the groundwater.
- The coffee seeped into the luggage and stained their clothes.
- This prevents the water from seeping through the hose jacket.
- From the plant dump site, the residues seep into the bay, he said.
- Knife cuts are made in the meat till the bone to allow seasoning to seep in.
- The deepest seep community known is found in the Japan trench at a depth of.
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