seep

seep

 (sēp)

intr.v. seeped, seep·ing, seeps

1. To pass slowly through small openings or pores; ooze: Water is seeping into the basement.

2. To enter, depart, or become diffused gradually: The importance of the situation finally seeped into my brain. The news seeped out bit by bit.

n.

A place on land or underwater where a liquid or gas oozes out of the ground.

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[Alteration of dialectal sipe.]

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seep

(siːp)

vb

(intr) to pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings; ooze

n

1. a small spring or place where water, oil, etc, has oozed through the ground

2. another word for seepage

[Old English sīpian; related to Middle High German sīfen, Swedish dialect sipa]

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seep

(sip)

v.i.

1. to pass, flow, or ooze gradually, as through a porous substance.

2. to become diffused; permeate.

v.t.

3. to cause to seep; filter.

n.

4. moisture that seeps out; seepage.

5. a small spring, pool, or the like, where liquid from the ground has oozed to the surface.

[1780–90; perhaps variant of dial. sipe, itself perhaps continuing Old English sīpian (c. Middle Low German sīpen)]

seep′y, adj.

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seep

Past participle: seeped
Gerund: seeping

Imperative

seep

seep

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Thesaurus

Verb

1.

seep - pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings ooze course, flow, run, feed - move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

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seep

verb ooze, well, leak, soak, bleed, weep, trickle, leach, exude, permeate, percolate Radioactive water had seeped into underground reservoirs.

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seep

verb

To flow or leak out or emit something slowly:

bleed, exude, leach, ooze, percolate, transpire, transude, weep.

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Translations

يَنِزُّ، يَرْشَح، يَسيلُ بِبُطء

mizetprosakovat

sive

sickernversickern

filtrer

seytla, vætla

filtrare

izsūktiesmazinātiesnoplūstsūkties

pronicati

sızmak

渗出

seep

[siːp] VI → filtrarse
to seep through/into/from → filtrarse or colarse por/en/de

seep away VI + ADV → escurrirse

seep in VI + ADV → filtrarse

seep out VI + ADV → escurrirse

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seep

[ˈsiːp] vi → s'infiltrer
The petrol fumes seeped into the cab → Les vapeurs d'essences s'infiltraient dans la cabine.

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seep

vi → sickern; to seep through something → durch etw durchsickern; to seep into something → in etw (acc) → hineinsickern

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seep

[siːp] vi to seep (through/from/into) → filtrare (attraverso/da/in or dentro)

seep away vi + adv → scolare a poco a poco

seep in vi + adv → infiltrarsi

seep out vi + adv → trapelare

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

seep

(siːp) verb

(of liquids) to flow slowly eg through a very small opening. Blood seeped out through the bandage round his head; All his confidence seeped away. uitlek يَنِزُّ، يَرْشَح، يَسيلُ بِبُطء просмуквам се verter prosakovat, mizet sickern sive διαρρέω, διαποτίζω, στάζωfiltrar immitsema تراوش كردن tihkua filtrer לְחַלחֵל रिसना iscuriti, cijediti se (át-, el-, be)szivárog merembes seytla, vætla filtrare; gocciolare しみ出る 새어 나오다, 새어 나가다 sunktis []sūkties; mazināties; noplūst meresap sijpelensive sączyć (się) څڅېدل، بهېدل verter a se prelinge просачиваться; постепенно исчезать presakovať; zmiznúť curljati curiti sippra, droppa, läcka, försvinna ซึมออกมา sızmak 滲出 просочуватися; поступово щезати رسنا thấm qua 渗出

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