ooze

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
2. (countable, uncountable) An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Secretion, humour.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Juice, sap.

Verb

1. (figuratively, intransitive, sometimes) To be secreted or slowly leak.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

Synonyms

exude

trickle

seep

slime

drip

mud

leak

sludge

silt

mire

drop

flow

dribble

percolate

ooze out

muck

bleed

🩸

escape

soak through

spill

distil

leakage

seep out

exudate

transude

leak out

discharge

slush

seepage

stream

oozing

sweat

😓

flow out

filter

fester

water

🚰

marsh

exudation

soft mud

spurt

slurry

gunk

guck

run

goop

gook

drizzle

goo

alluvium

blackish mud

Translations

suinter

sickern

rezumar

melma

exudar

cieno

λάσπη

αναβλύζω

stillare

durchsickern

boue

διαρρέω

segregar

traspuar

auslaufen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/uːz/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wose

Inherited from Old English: wōs

Cognate with Middle Low German:

Cognate with Old High German:

Cognate with Sanskrit: वसा

Inherited from Middle English: wosen

Inherited from Old English: wōsan

Inherited from Old English: wāse

Cognate with Dutch: waas

Cognate with German: Wasen

Cognate with Old Norse: veisa

Cognate with Sanskrit: विष्यति

In summary

* (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English wōs (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *wōsą (cf. Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos), from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh₂ (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit वसा (vásā, “fat”)).
* (Verb) Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan; see above.