seep

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

• oil: A summary oil seep diagram can be found here.
• water: Rain and ground water seep into the fabric of the buildings and force mosaics to bubble up.