ooze
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6.0
- noun
- /uz/
- The primordial ooze from which life originates.
Examples
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The water felt thick with ooze, with something like clay.
Fiction book (2001) -
But there is wetness, puddles, and the ooze of moisture through brick.
Blog text (14) -
One of them is very close to the ooze at the bottom.
Fiction book (1995) -
Jobber picked her steps carefully but quickly through the ooze of mud and duckweed.
Fiction book (1991) -
An orange, pulpy ooze bloomed like a flower, then dripped down like blood.
Fiction book (2000) -
I wade, ankle-deep in the ooze, mixing the gravel and the watered lime.
Fiction book (1996) -
At these depths, the ooze was alive with Serolis polita, a flat, thumbnail-sized isopod.
Academic text (1992) -
A long-forgotten oil lamp, rusted and shattered, has sunk halfway into the purple ooze.
Fiction book (2001) -
After the heavy rain, a dark ooze seeped from the ground, making the area look muddy and unwelcoming.
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The construction workers were careful as they walked through the thick ooze that had formed at the site after the flood.
Synonyms
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8.5
A flow of liquid or gas out through a small opening
7
5.7
Slow movement of liquid or gas through small holes in materials
4
2.7
To flow slowly through small holes or spaces
2
6.8
Slow movement of water into and through soil or rock
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4.5
A slow steady flow of liquid from a small opening
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Etymology
Ooze probably comes from a simple sound that copies liquid moving 'slowly', so think of something gently seeping out to remember this meaning.