ooze

ooze is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
2. noun. Soft flow; spring.
3. noun. The liquor of a tan vat.
4. noun. To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
5. noun. Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
6. transitive verb. To cause to ooze.
7. noun. the process of seeping

   Synonyms: oozing, seepage

8. noun. any thick, viscous matter

   Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, slime, sludge

9. verb. release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities

   "exude sweat through the pores"

   Synonyms: exudate, exude, transude

10. verb. pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

    Synonyms: seep

Synonyms

oozing, seepage, goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, slime, sludge, exudate, exude, transude, seep

Common word forms

oozed, oozes, oozing

Words from these letters

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