ooze

Meanings

Plural: oozes

Noun

• any thick, viscous matter
• the process of seeping
• Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
• An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
• Secretion, humour.
• Juice, sap.
• 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.
• A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

Verb

• pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
• release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
• To be secreted or slowly leak.
• To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

Synonyms

exudate, exude, goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze out, oozing, seep, seepage, slime, sludge, transude