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- Dictionaryooze/uːz/
verb
- 1. (of a fluid) slowly trickle or seep out of something: "blood was oozing from a wound in his scalp" Similar
- 2. give a powerful impression of (a quality): "she oozes a raunchy sex appeal" Similar
noun
- 1. the sluggish flow of a fluid: "I picked a fruit and watched the ooze of fig milk from the stem" Similar
- 2. an infusion of oak bark or other vegetable matter, used in tanning. Similar
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OOZE definition: 1. to flow slowly out of something through a small opening, or to slowly produce a thick sticky…. Learn more.
1. : to pass or flow slowly through or as if through small openings or interstices. 2. : to move slowly or imperceptibly. the crowd began to ooze forward Bruce Marshall. 3. a. : to exude moisture. b. : to exude something often in a faintly repellent manner. ooze with sympathy. transitive verb. 1. : to emit slowly. 2. : exude sense 2.
You can refer to any thick, sticky, liquid substance as ooze, especially the mud at the bottom of a river, lake, or the sea. ...a primeval ooze. He grabbed into the ooze and came up clutching a large toad.
Sludge oozes out of a treatment plant. Cream oozes out of a tube. Whatever is oozing is referred to as ooze. After an oil spill, a cleanup crew has to clean up the ooze that collects on the shore. It can also be used to describe someone's behavior if it's especially awful. A person who is really bad, for example, can be said to ooze evil.
Definition of ooze verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
n. 1. Soft mud or slime. 2. A layer of mudlike sediment on the floor of oceans and lakes, composed chiefly of remains of microscopic sea animals. 3. Muddy ground.
Ooze definition: (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.. See examples of OOZE used in a sentence.
ooze meaning: 1. If a liquid oozes from something, it comes out slowly: 2. to show a lot of a quality: . Learn more.
Oct 8, 2024 · ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes) 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. (obsolete) Secretion, humour. (obsolete) Juice, sap.
Definitions of 'ooze' 1. When a thick or sticky liquid oozes from something or when something oozes it, the liquid flows slowly and in small quantities. [...] 2. If you say that someone or something oozes a quality or characteristic, or oozes with it, you mean that they show it very strongly. [...] More. Pronunciations of 'ooze'
