Ooze

Word OOZE
Character 4
Hyphenation ooze
Pronunciations /uːz/

Definitions and meanings of "Ooze"

What do we mean by ooze?

Soft mud or slime. noun

A layer of mudlike sediment on the floor of oceans and lakes, composed chiefly of remains of microscopic sea animals. noun

Muddy ground. noun

To flow or leak out slowly, as through small openings. intransitive verb

To disappear or ebb slowly. intransitive verb

To progress slowly but steadily. intransitive verb

To exude moisture. intransitive verb

To emit a particular essence or quality. intransitive verb

To give off; exude. intransitive verb

To emit or radiate in abundance. intransitive verb

The act of oozing. noun

Something that oozes. noun

An infusion of plant material, as from oak bark, formerly used in tanning. noun

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently or yield easily to pressure. noun

Specifically Fine calcareous mud found covering extensive areas of the floor of the ocean. This deposit is largely made up of the remains of Foraminifera. noun

A soft flow; a slow spring; that which oozes. noun

In tanning, a solution of tannin obtained by infusing or boiling oak-bark, sumac, catechu, or other tannin-yielding vegetable; the liquor of a tan-vat. noun

The short fibers on the surface of cotton thread, usually burned off in manufacture. noun

To flow as ooze; percolate, as a liquid, through the pores of a substance, or through small openings; flow in small quantities from the pores of a body: often used figuratively.

To drip; be wet, as with water leaking through.

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.

Secretion, humour.

Juice, sap.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Ooze

The word "ooze" in example sentences

When given the green light, I would pull the boat into the lock, place her along the cement sidewall (a feat with a boat that acts like a bath toy because it has no keel), and grab hold of a weighted line that ran down the side of the lock — slick with ooze from the canal water and sometimes covered with zebra mussels, the scourge of the Great Lakes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The power went out in our apartment, making a cold puddle of water ooze from the fridge, and because it couldn't be fixed, we were moved to another, almost identical apartment. ❋ Nathreee (2010)

Watching your own blood ooze from a cut you made yourself, burning your thigh with a cigarette, vomiting in a restaurant bathroom after a meal, letting yourself look like a derelict -- all the sad and sordid acts associated with "the dark side" -- are in reality little more than pop-culture clichés. ❋ David Leibow (2010)

The danger, as sleazy stories ooze from the depths of the Web, is that traditional news outlets will find themselves spreading unsubstantiated garbage. ❋ Howard Kurtz (2010)

The smell of what will ooze from the GOP sewer will not be pleasant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's behind a cut, because like everything in Sirenia Digest (subscribe today!), it is, obviously, "mature" and "not work-safe" and likely to offend (or at least confuse) anyone who doesn't think swamp ooze is sexy (I am told such people exist, though I myself doubt it can be true): ❋ Greygirlbeast (2008)

It was Bush who did the "jaw boning" (as he likes to call it) and let what was left of his brain ooze out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My wife loves watching cheep celeb telly, money; weight and fame generally ooze from the TV. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Over on Newsnight, Gavin Essler, whose sympathises positively ooze from the plasma of the TV screen, did report it, but quickly hedged about with much qualification about other, older polls that have the Tory lead much lower. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The ooze from a small perforation stained its delicately dappled breast. ❋ Blue Tyson (2008)

Rodney's intelligence, and his disassociation, ooze from the creepy second person narrative. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Neither condemnation nor praise carry much water at my place when they ooze from a black hole of secrecy (well, in this case semi-secrecy). ❋ Unknown (2003)

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