Ooze

Quick meaning: Ooze is a noun meaning Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.

Meaning

Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.

More Meanings

1. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
2. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To be secreted or slowly leak.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
4. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
5. (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
6. (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
7. (obsolete) Juice, sap.

Example Sentences

"Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.

There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.

Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.

I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.

Word Forms

• oozes
• oozing
• oozed

Synonyms for ooze

Depending on context, synonyms include exude, sludge, seep, exudate, slime, transude.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include muck, goo, sludge, seep, seepage, transude.

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