Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Leaking out slowly: Describes something from which a thick or viscous liquid escapes gradually, often through small openings or pores.

2. Noun:

   • The process of seeping: The slow escape or movement of a fluid, often a thick or sticky one, through a small opening or porous material.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • The oozing wound required immediate medical attention.
  • We avoided the oozing garbage bag on the sidewalk.

• Noun:

  • The slow oozing of sap from the tree trunk was a natural process.
  • The oozing of crude oil from the pipeline created an environmental hazard.

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use (Adjective): Can describe something that exudes or displays a quality abundantly and noticeably.
  • The politician gave a speech oozing with false sincerity.
  • The luxurious hotel was oozing old-world charm.

Variants and Related Words

• Ooze (verb): To flow or leak out slowly.
  • Sap began to ooze from the cut in the bark.
• Ooze (noun): Soft mud or slime, especially at the bottom of a body of water.
  • The diver's feet sank into the ooze at the lakebed.
• Oozy (adjective): Resembling or covered in ooze; soft and wet.
  • The path was oozy after the heavy rain.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Seeping, leaking, dripping, exuding.
• Noun: Seepage, leakage, exudation, trickle.

Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions

• To ooze out: Emphasizes the exit or emergence of the substance.
  • Confidence seemed to ooze out of every pore.
• To ooze with something: To be full of and visibly display a particular (often negative) quality.
  • His letter oozed with self-pity.

Related Idioms

• (To be) oozing charm/confidence/etc.: To display an excessive amount of a particular quality in a very obvious way.
  • The new sales manager walked into the room oozing confidence.

Adjective

1. leaking out slowly

Noun

1. the process of seeping