ooze

CEFRB2

/uːz/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To flow or leak slowly through a surface.

  2. 02

    noun

    A thick, wet substance that flows slowly.

Examples

  • After a while, passion and infatuation ooze away.

  • I lost my balance and pitched head foremost into the ooze.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /ʉːz/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.

  2. Secretion, humour.

noun

Extra meaning

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

More examples

In context

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

  • my son i' th' ooze is bedded.

  • Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art.

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Origin

verb

* (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English wōs (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *wōsą, from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh₂ (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit वसा (vásā, “fat”)). Cognate to Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos, ooss, Swedish os. Compare Old Swedish os, oos, Swedish os, Danish os, Norwegian os (“fumes, vapors, reeking, fug”). * (Verb) Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan; see above. Compare Swedish osa (“ooze”).