Synonyms for ooze

Most common

exude · drip · trickle · sweat

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

Noun

Antonyms

torrent

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Definitions

1. v. 1

   To be secreted or slowly leak.

2. n. 1

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

Related words

Word family

oozingly oozy

Phrases

primordial ooze sea ooze pteropod ooze

Forms

Plural

oozes → goos, slimes, sludges, goops…

Past participle

oozed
e.g. oozed → exuded, dripped, trickled, sweated…

Example sentences

• sweat Their grace comes from hard work, sweat, and pain.
• drip When I exercise in mid-summer, I drip with sweat.
• trickle Sami's problems would sometimes trickle over to me.
• exude Some people have a calm temperament or exude courtesy.
• leak There's a leak in the roof that needs to be fixed.
• diminish This doesn't give him the right to diminish Muslims.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

mud¹, goo¹, ebb¹

4 letters

leak¹, drip¹, muck¹, seep¹, mire¹, goop¹, gunk, gook¹, guck¹

5 letters

sweat¹, drain¹, slime¹, exude²

6 letters

filter², strain¹, sludge¹

7 letters

trickle², seepage², exudate

8 letters

diminish³, perspire², transude

9 letters

percolate³, exudation

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (exude² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

suinter

Italiano

trasudare

Català

traspuar