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/uːz/ · noun
Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather..
I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.
She picked up the limp sprout and squeezed her thumb up its tiny stalk. Microscopic grains oozed out. “Why, one sprig of nut grass can ruin a whole yard. Look here. When it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all over Maycomb County!” Miss Maudie’s face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence.
Pale slime oozed through all the surfaces; some of it dripped from the ceiling and burned Dennis as badly as the blazing sparks had done a moment before.
He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes.
Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.
[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.
"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.
Use ooze when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ooze means Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather..
Common synonyms include pteropod ooze, exude, sludge, seep.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.
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