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Oozing   /ˈuzɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Ooze  v. t.  To cause to ooze.


Ooze  v. i.  (past & past part. oozed; pres. part. oozing)  
1.
To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings. "The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass."
2.
Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.


adjective
oozing  adj.  Leaking out slowly.
Synonyms: oozy, seeping.





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"Oozing" Quotes from Famous Books



... she gazed Bella selected a plum tart and bit into it—bit generously, so that her white little teeth met in the very middle of the oozing red-brown juice and one heard a little squirt as they closed on the luscious fruit. At the sound Fanny quivered all through her ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... a voice behind them, and they found that the Birmingham clergyman had joined the party. His tied hands clutched on to his Makloofa saddle, and his fat body swayed dangerously from side to side with every stride of the camel. His wounded leg was oozing with blood and clotted with flies, and the burning desert sun beat down upon his bare head, for he had lost both hat and umbrella in the scuffle. A rising fever flecked his large, white cheeks with a touch of colour, and brought a ...
— The Tragedy of The Korosko • Arthur Conan Doyle
... Maggie had been drinking heavily, fighting, too, as usual, and she staggered only as far, on her way home, as the narrow chain-pier. Here she stumbled and fell, and lay along on the snow, the blood oozing from her cuts, and her hair spread out ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth
... fact settled the point. Tom, the black boy, felt a nip on the arm as he put on a clean shirt an evening or two ago, and, reversing the sleeve, found a tarantula. Blood was oozing from two tiny incisions, the space between which was slightly raised. For two days Tom suffered pain in the arm, which became slightly swollen, ...
— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield
... went in with me. The place struck damp and chill. The walls were covered with green, evil-smelling fungi, and through the brickwork the moisture was oozing and had trickled down in long lines to the ground. Before us was nothing but ...
— A Master of Mysteries • L. T. Meade


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