ooze vs seep

ooze

noun
  • An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth. 

  • A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground. 

  • Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather. 

  • Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary. 

  • A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms. 

verb
  • To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude. 

  • To be secreted or slowly leak. 

seep

noun
  • A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping. 

  • The seeping away of a liquid, etc. 

  • A seafloor vent. 

  • Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage. 

verb
  • (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak. 

  • To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse. 

  • To diminish or wane away slowly. 

  • To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc. 

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