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ooze
1[ ooz ]
verb (used without object)
- (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
- to move or pass slowly or gradually, as if through a small opening or passage:
The crowd oozed toward the entrance.
- (of a substance) to exude moisture.
- (of something abstract, as information or courage) to appear or disappear slowly or imperceptibly (often followed by out or away ):
His cockiness oozed away during my rebuttal speech.
- to display some characteristic or quality:
to ooze with piety.
verb (used with object)
- to make by oozing.
- to exude (moisture, air, etc.) slowly.
- to display or dispense freely and conspicuously:
He can ooze charm when it serves his interest.
ooze
2[ ooz ]
noun
- Geology. a calcareous or siliceous mud composed chiefly of the shells of one-celled organisms, covering parts of the ocean bottom.
- soft mud, or slime.
- a marsh or bog.
ooze
1/ uːz /
verb
- intr to flow or leak out slowly, as through pores or very small holes
- to exude or emit (moisture, gas, etc)
- tr to overflow with
to ooze charm
- introften foll byaway to disappear or escape gradually
noun
- a slow flowing or leaking
- an infusion of vegetable matter, such as sumach or oak bark, used in tanning
ooze
2/ uːz /
noun
- a soft thin mud found at the bottom of lakes and rivers
- a fine-grained calcareous or siliceous marine deposit consisting of the hard parts of planktonic organisms
- muddy ground, esp of bogs
Word History and Origins
Origin of ooze1
Origin of ooze2
Word History and Origins
Origin of ooze1
Origin of ooze2
Example Sentences
Curiously, even the dark meat does not ooze rivers of juice when you bite it.
No, this is about which conservative leaders ooze a stereotypical, gut-level manliness.
There they vanish, their fine tones never to be tried more, and ooze through the red-hot ruin, "Hush-sh-sht!"
And now, for fear my courage will ooze out, I must tell you quickly.
He lifted a pseudopod from primordial ooze, and the pseudopod was him.
"They thought they could prick us like that, and let the life ooze out," said the doctor.
Depend on it, the story will ooze out, you are so well known, and so much visited now.
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