ooze vs take up

ooze

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

  • To be secreted or slowly leak. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

take up

verb
  • Synonym of take in (“tighten a belaying rope”) 

  • To accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from. 

  • To implement, to employ, to put into use. 

  • To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class. 

  • To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis. 

  • To occupy; to consume (space or time). 

  • To resume. 

  • To pick up. 

  • To address (an issue). 

  • To shorten by hemming. 

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