to seep into

Examples

• All

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

• We're like, now it's, you know, it's going to seep into the wood.

• And that allows them to kind of let it seep into their own teaching.

• And if they start to lose it, it seeps into the relationship.

• Over time, it seeped into the earth.

  Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)

• The worst part is that this doubt, this fear is slowly seeping into all areas of my life.

• The effect of my childhood has seeped into every aspect of my life.

• I could feel all those nutrients seeping into the system, strengthening me.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The fact that everybody lives in an ecosystem is only now slowly seeping into society's collective consciousness.

  Academic text (1997)

• Water began to seep into the cracked foundation of the house after the heavy rain.

Synonyms

L

to leak

vsto seep into

212 1.0

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

is slower and involves movement through surfaces or tiny pores rather than through holes

S

to seep

vsto seep into

82 2.7

To move slowly through small holes or cracks

is the same meaning but used with an extra preposition indicating direction

P

to penetrate

vsto seep into

44 5.0

Spread through something and reach all parts, like a strong smell

is limited to slow movement at the surface rather than deep diffusion throughout

I

to infiltrate

vsto seep into

• Specialized

16 7.3

To move slowly through a material like soil or walls

is general slow passage through surfaces rather than filtered entry

P

to percolate

vsto seep into

• Specialized

3 6.4

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

is the general slow movement through any surface rather than only porous ones

L

to leach into

vsto seep into

2 7.5

To slowly move into soil, water, or a person's mind when a liquid carries something there

is about slow physical passage through surfaces rather than broad incorporation

O

to ooze through

vsto seep into

1 4.8

To flow slowly through small holes or cracks

is less about steady flowing and more about ordinary slow leakage

T

to transude

vsto seep into

9.9

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

is broader and shows general slow movement rather than discrete drops

Antonyms

R

to remain

∞ 1.0

To stay in the same place or state and not change

S

to stay put

• Informal

133 2.0

Remain in the same place without moving

How Fast

to inundate

40 6.8

to soak through

6 3.1

to seep into

25 3.0

to trickle

70 3.4

ooze

5 6.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology