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Definition of Ooze

1. Verb. Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings.

2. Noun. Any thick, viscous matter.

3. Verb. Release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities. "Exude sweat through the pores"

4. Noun. The process of seeping.

Definition of Ooze

1. n. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

2. v. i. To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.

3. v. t. To cause to ooze.

4. n. A soft deposit covering large areas of the ocean bottom, composed largely or mainly of the shells or other hard parts of minute organisms, as Foraminifera, Radiolaria, and diatoms. The radiolarian ooze occurring in many places in very deep water is composed mainly of the siliceous skeletons of radiolarians, calcareous matter being dissolved by the lage percentage of carbon dioxide in the water at these depths.

Definition of Ooze

1. Noun. Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning. ¹

2. Noun. Secretion, humour. ¹

3. Noun. A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To secrete or slowly leak. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To give off a sense of (something). ¹

6. Noun. Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water. ¹

7. Noun. Piece of soft, wet, pliable turf. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ooze

1. to flow or leak out slowly [v OOZED, OOZING, OOZES]

Medical Definition of Ooze

1. 1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded." 2. Soft flow; spring. 3. The liquor of a tan vat. Origin: OE. Wose, AS. Wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to ws juice, ooze, Icel. Vas wetness, OHG. Waso turf, sod, G. Wasen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ooze

oostegite oostegites oosterboschite oosy oot ootheca oothecae oothecal ootid ootidogenesis

ootids ootocoid oots ootype ootypes ooze (current term) ooze leather ooze out ooze through oozed

oozes oozier ooziest oozily oozin' ooziness oozinesses oozing oozingly oozoa

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