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Ooze

/uːz/

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

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📖 Definitions of "Ooze"

noun

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
Secretion, humour.
4
Juice, sap.

verb

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

🔄 Synonyms of "Ooze"

13 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
exudeverb	(transitive) To give off or radiate a certain quality or emotion, often strongly.
sludgenoun	A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
seepverb	(intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
exudatenoun	A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
slimenoun	Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
transudeverb	To pass through a pore, membrane or interstice.
oozingnoun	(countable, uncountable) Something that oozes; a seepage.
seepagenoun	The process by which something, especially a liquid, leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping. (Also used figuratively: the process of diffusing.)
gunknoun	(uncountable, informal) Grime, dirt, slime; any vague, messy, or unknown substance.
goonoun	(uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.
gucknoun	(slang) An unpleasant sticky substance; goo, gunk.
ooze outverb	release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
mucknoun	Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ooze"

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Word	Definition
mucknoun	Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
goonoun	(uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.
sludgenoun	A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
seepverb	(intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
seepagenoun	The process by which something, especially a liquid, leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping. (Also used figuratively: the process of diffusing.)
transudeverb	To pass through a pore, membrane or interstice.
slimenoun	Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
exudeverb	(transitive) To give off or radiate a certain quality or emotion, often strongly.
exudatenoun	A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
gunknoun	(uncountable, informal) Grime, dirt, slime; any vague, messy, or unknown substance.
gucknoun	(slang) An unpleasant sticky substance; goo, gunk.
ooze outverb	release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
slurrynoun	Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
mirenoun	An undesirable situation; a predicament.
gutternoun	A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
leaknoun	A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
dirtnoun	(chiefly US) Soil or earth.
diatomnoun	Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta.
radiolariannoun	Any of many marine amoeboid protozoa, of subclass Radiolaria, having filamentous pseudopodia; they have intricate silica skeletons.
pteropodnoun	Any of free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, of the suborder Thecosomata, that have winglike lobes on the feet; a sea butterfly.