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ALL meanings of ooze

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  • transitive verb ooze exude slowly 1
  • transitive verb ooze exude, project 1
  • intransitive verb ooze flow slowly 1
  • noun ooze slow flow 1
  • verb without object ooze (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings. 1
  • verb without object ooze to move or pass slowly or gradually, as if through a small opening or passage: The crowd oozed toward the entrance. 1
  • verb without object ooze (of a substance) to exude moisture. 1
  • verb without object ooze (of something abstract, as information or courage) to appear or disappear slowly or imperceptibly (often followed by out or away): His cockiness oozed away during my rebuttal speech. 1
  • verb without object ooze to display some characteristic or quality: to ooze with piety. 1
  • verb with object ooze to make by oozing. 1
  • verb with object ooze to exude (moisture, air, etc.) slowly. 1
  • verb with object ooze to display or dispense freely and conspicuously: He can ooze charm when it serves his interest. 1
  • noun ooze Geology. a calcareous or siliceous mud composed chiefly of the shells of one-celled organisms, covering parts of the ocean bottom. 1
  • noun ooze soft mud, or slime. 1
  • noun ooze a marsh or bog. 1
  • noun ooze (of a fluid) slowly trickle or seep out of something; flow in a very gradual way. 1
  • noun Technical meaning of ooze Object oriented extension of Z. "Object Orientation in Z", S. Stepney et al eds, Springer 1992. 1
  • verb ooze When a thick or sticky liquid oozes from something or when something oozes it, the liquid flows slowly and in small quantities. 0
  • verb ooze If you say that someone or something oozes a quality or characteristic, or oozes with it, you mean that they show it very strongly. 0
  • uncountable noun ooze You can refer to any thick, sticky, liquid substance as ooze, especially the mud at the bottom of a river, lake, or the sea. 0
  • verb ooze to flow or leak out slowly, as through pores or very small holes 0
  • verb ooze to exude or emit (moisture, gas, etc) 0
  • verb ooze to overflow with 0
  • verb ooze to disappear or escape gradually 0
  • noun ooze a slow flowing or leaking 0
  • noun ooze an infusion of vegetable matter, such as sumach or oak bark, used in tanning 0
  • noun ooze a soft thin mud found at the bottom of lakes and rivers 0
  • noun ooze a fine-grained calcareous or siliceous marine deposit consisting of the hard parts of planktonic organisms 0
  • noun ooze muddy ground, esp of bogs 0
  • noun ooze an infusion of oak bark, sumac, etc., used in tanning leather 0
  • noun ooze an oozing; gentle flow 0
  • noun ooze something that oozes 0
  • intransitive verb ooze to flow or leak out slowly, as through very small holes; seep 0
  • intransitive verb ooze to give forth moisture, as through pores 0
  • intransitive verb ooze to escape or disappear gradually 0
  • verb transitive ooze to give forth, or exude (a fluid) 0
  • verb transitive ooze to seem to radiate 0
  • noun ooze soft mud or slime; esp., the deep layers of sediment at the bottom of a lake, ocean, etc. 0
  • noun ooze an area of muddy ground; bog 0
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