ooze
/u:z/
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Definition
Noun:
- A slow flow or leakage: The process of a liquid or viscous substance seeping out gradually.
- Soft mud or slime: A thick, wet, soft deposit, typically found at the bottom of a river, lake, or sea.
Verb:
- To flow or leak out slowly: To pass or seep gradually through small openings.
- To exude or give off: To release a liquid, quality, or feeling slowly and steadily.
Examples
Noun:
- The constant ooze of sap from the tree trunk attracted insects.
- We walked carefully through the thick ooze at the river's edge.
Verb:
- Blood began to ooze from the cut.
- Her confidence seemed to ooze from every pore.
Advanced Usage
- "to ooze with something": To be full of and abundantly display a particular quality.
- The luxurious hotel oozes with old-world charm.
- "to ooze away": To diminish or disappear gradually.
- His enthusiasm for the project began to ooze away after months of setbacks.
Variants and Related Words
- Oozy (adj): Resembling or covered in ooze; soft and wet.
- The oozy ground made walking difficult.
- Oozing (n/adj): The act or process of oozing; something that oozes.
- The oozing of the wound required a bandage.
Synonyms
- Verb: Seep, leak, exude, drip, percolate, trickle.
- Noun: Sludge, mire, muck, seepage.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Ooze out: To escape or become known gradually.
- The details of the scandal slowly oozed out over several weeks.
Related Idioms
- To ooze confidence/charm: To display an abundance of a quality in a very apparent way.
- The lead actor just oozes confidence on stage.
Noun
- the process of seeping
- any thick, viscous matter
Verb
- release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
- exude sweat through the pores
- pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings