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to seeping

to seeping

2.7
To flow slowly through small holes or spaces
  • verb
  • /ˈsiːpɪŋ/
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  • Water is slowly seeping through the cracks in the wall after the heavy rain.

And now there's glorious light seeping through my window, which is great.

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Examples

  • Exposure fades, the frescoes, plants colonize walls and floors, and seeping water sometimes brings whole structures down.

  • And now there's glorious light seeping through my window, which is great.

    Sarah Rae Vargas

  • You can see where it's kind of seeping down into it.

  • There is so much blood it is seeping into my shoes.

  • But at night, it's just barely seeping out of your mouth.

    Andrew Huberman

  • Her lips were dry and stretched thin, blood seeping between the cracks.

  • I pat all over my face so that it seeps into the skin before I put on the next layer.

    Vogue

  • So I was in this little yeah, with the, the truck bomb made a, made a, a crater so deep that water was seeping in from the water table.

  • The cut on his arm was bleeding, with blood seeping through the bandage.

  • She could hear the sound of the rain seeping into the ground as the storm continued.

Synonyms

to leak
vsto seeping
212 1.0

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

is narrower, focusing on slow flow through small pores not general holes
to seep
vsto seeping
82 2.7

To move slowly through small holes or cracks

is the continuous progressive form used for ongoing slow flow
to ooze
vsto seeping
64 3.9

To flow out slowly through small holes

is the continuous action form emphasizing ongoing flow
to percolate
vsto seeping
  • Specialized
3 6.4

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

is passive slow escape through pores rather than an agent causing it
oozing
vsto seeping
4.5

Slowly leaking thick, sticky liquid

is used for any slow flow, not only thick sticky liquids

Antonyms

to persist
  • Formal
18 5.2

To stay in a place for a long time

How Fast

gushing
4.1
to trickle
70 3.4
to seeping
2.7
oozing
4.5

Surface Forms

seep infinitive
seeped past
seeped past participle
seeping present participle
seeps third person singular

Morphology

seeping = seep (transparent) = seep + ing

Formed by the regular verb + -ing pattern to indicate ongoing action or the gerund; meaning is directly predictable from 'seep'.

Etymology

Seeping comes from an old English word sīepan, which meant 'to drip' or 'trickle'. So to seep is when a liquid slowly flows or leaks through small holes or soft material, just like that slow dripping.