seep
seep
Definition
seep (sēp)
intransitive verb
to leak, drip, or flow out slowly through small openings or pores; ooze
Etymology: ME *sipen < OE sipian, to soak, akin to MLowG sīpen, to drip < IE base *seib-, to run out, drip > soap
noun
- a place where water, oil, etc. oozes from the ground to form a pool
- seepage
seep′y adjective
seep
Synonyms
seep
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- let: She sat on the front step and let the cold damp seep past her coat and into her body.
Preposition: through
- crack: The fuel source for the flames is natural gas, largely methane, seeping through cracks in the earth.
- wall: But nothing was done until, months later, water began seeping through the walls and floor of their cellar.
Adjective modifier
- cold: The cold seeps in, floods the feeling in my body.
Preposition: into
- consciousness: However, any new style seeping into the consciousness of human beings can take time.
- ground: This is a completely natural system which breaks the waste down and seeps into the ground.
Modifies a noun
- hose: A seep hose laid along the mats or sand bed takes most of the work out of watering.
Modifying Another Word
- slowly: More... Q. A grayling had blood spots which seemed to be seeping very slowly from under some of its scales.
- gradually: Water gradually seeps from the hose down its entire length ideal for watering rows of vegetables or bedding plants.
- away: Worse still, power is steadily seeping away from the nation states to the central EU bureaucracy.
- eventually: The quickness eventually seeped away in all three stanzas, with Durbach playing thoughtful strokes that inevitably gave him the edge.
- back: Finally the water seeps back into the aquifer, ready for further use.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- through: A voice rises through the blues, a heart seeping through - " beside you, beside you " - like a mantra.
- out: In these cases, the stroke is caused by a weakened artery bursting, which allows blood to seep out of the artery wall.
- down: Then the burn started seeping down into my hand.
- away: The sand's all seeped away between the stones; the water hasn't got any hands.
Preposition: in
- history: Wherever you go, you will be walking along streets seeped in important history.
Preposition: from
- wound: Blood seeping from the multiple wounds on his neck.
Noun used with modifier
