Definitions for oozeuz

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

oozeuz(v.; n.)oozed, ooz•ing

  1. (v.i.)(of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.

  2. to move or pass slowly or gradually.

  3. (of a substance) to exude moisture.

  4. (of something abstract, as courage) to appear or disappear slowly or imperceptibly (often fol. by out or away).

  5. to display some characteristic or quality.

  6. (v.t.)to make by oozing.

  7. to exude (moisture, air, etc.) slowly.

  8. to display or dispense freely and conspicuously:

    to ooze charm.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

  9. (n.)the act of oozing.

  10. something that oozes.

  11. an infusion of oak bark, sumac, etc., used in tanning.

    Category: Clothing

Origin of ooze:

bef. 1000; ME wos(e), OE wōs juice, moisture

oozeuz(n.)

  1. a calcareous or siliceous mud composed chiefly of the shells of one-celled organisms.

    Category: Geology

  2. soft mud or slime.

    Category: Geology

  3. a marsh or bog.

    Category: Geology

Origin of ooze:

bef. 900; ME wose, OE wāse mud

Princeton's WordNet

  1. sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze(noun)

    any thick, viscous matter

  2. seepage, ooze, oozing(verb)

    the process of seeping

  3. seep, ooze(verb)

    pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

  4. exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze(verb)

    release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities

    "exude sweat through the pores"

Wiktionary

  1. ooze(Noun)

    Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.

  2. ooze(Noun)

    Secretion, humour.

  3. ooze

    A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.

  4. ooze(Verb)

    To secrete or slowly leak.

  5. ooze(Verb)

    To give off a sense of (something).

  6. ooze(Noun)

    Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.

  7. ooze(Noun)

    Piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.


Translations for ooze

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

ooze(verb)

to flow slowly

The water oozed through the sand.

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