to seep

Examples

• All

• Water seeped through the cracks in the basement walls during the heavy rain.

• We have oil, and it seeps through the ground.

  There Will Be Blood (2007)

• The real world starts to seep in.

  Millennium After the Millennium (2019)

• Each day, her pain will turn to poison, and seep into you.

  Umma (2022)

• Many inevitably seep into the water system and accumulate in the food chain.

  Academic text (2007)

• So the finished compost will actually seep down and make your soil very rich and soft and loamy.

• An estimated 1,000 new synthetic compounds are introduced every year; some of them inevitably seep into drinking-water sources.

  Academic text (2007)

• Towns and businesses could pave with a permeable material that enables water to seep back into aquifers.

  Academic text (2007)

• Water from your gastrointestinal tract seeps through the membrane at a carefully controlled rate.

  White Noise (2022)

• The Newcomen steam engine provided power to lift water that seeped into ever-deepening mines in the Old World.

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

L

to leak

vsto seep

212 1.0

To let water, gas or light escape through a small opening

is specific to slow movement through tiny openings or pores

T

to trickle

vsto seep

70 3.4

To flow slowly in drops or a thin stream

describes movement through pores rather than surface running or drops

O

to ooze

vsto seep

64 3.9

To flow out slowly through small holes

uses the same passing idea but stresses movement through pores

S

to seep into

vsto seep

25 3.0

To move slowly through a surface into something

does the same action but without indicating direction

D

to drip down

vsto seep

12 1.4

Liquid falls in small drops down a surface

describes slow passing through openings, not falling drop by drop

O

to ooze out

vsto seep

7 3.4

To flow slowly in small amounts through tiny holes

describes the same action but without stressing output amount

O

to ooze from

vsto seep

4 4.2

Slowly flow out from a cut or crack in something

means the same movement but without naming origin

S

to seep from

vsto seep

3 3.5

Liquid flows slowly out of something through small holes

does the same action but without indicating direction

P

to percolate

vsto seep

• Specialized

3 6.4

Make a liquid or gas move slowly through a material with small holes

describes the passive movement rather than an action that causes it

O

to ooze through

vsto seep

1 4.8

To flow slowly through small holes or cracks

refers to simple slow passing through small openings or pores

S

to seeping

vsto seep

2.7

To flow slowly through small holes or spaces

is the basic verb form used to name this action

O

oozing

vsto seep

4.5

Slowly leaking thick, sticky liquid

indicates the same slow passing but without implying thickness

T

to transude

vsto seep

9.9

To pass slowly through a surface and come out as small drops

refers to general slow passing rather than release as drops

Antonyms

B

to block

∞ 3.0

To stop movement, access, or progress

C

to contain

∞ 1.1

To have something inside like a box or book

Phrasal Verbs

S

to seep into

25 3.0

To move slowly through a surface into something

S

to seep from

3 3.5

Liquid flows slowly out of something through small holes

How Fast

to pour

588 1.0

to leak

212 1.0

to seep

82 2.7

to trickle

70 3.4

ooze

5 6.0

Surface Forms

Etymology