ooze

Meaning

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

exude

ooze out

soak through

seep out

flow out

soft mud

blackish mud

mud-bank

mud accumulation

seep through

gentle flow

sluggish stream

stream forth

well out

fall in drops

gush forth

mud silting

transudation seeping

drip into

percorate

putresce

slow flow

flow forth

slimy mess

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/uːz/

* (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.