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The Meaning of ooze

  • (n.) Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
  • (n.) Soft flow; spring.
  • (n.) The liquor of a tan vat.
  • (n.) To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
  • (n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
  • (v. t.) To cause to ooze.

Synonyms

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

Homophones

oohs , ooohs

Rhymes

abuse , accrues , accuse , amuse , andrews , bemuse , blues , bmews , boos , booz , booze , brews , bruise , bruse , buse , canoes , chartreuse , choose , chuse , clews , clues , confuse , coups , crewes , crews , cruise , cruse , cruz , cruze , cues , defuse , dews , diffuse , disabuse , drewes , drews , druse , druze , dues , ensues , enthuse , eschews , excuse , flews , foos , fuse , glues , goos , groos , guse , hewes , hews , hindus , hoos , hues , hughes , hughs , huse , infuse , jews , joos , kangaroos , kloos , koos , kruse , kuse , lewes , loos , lose , luiz , luse , meuse , mewes , misuse , moos , muise , muse , news , oohs , ooohs , overuse , peruse , pews , primenews , pughs , pursues , ques , recuse , refuse , reuse , reviews , revues , roos , roose , ruse , santa-cruz , schmoose , schmooze , screws , shampoos , shoes , shrews , snooze , soos , sous , spews , stews , strews , sues , suffuse , syracuse , taboos , tewes , throughs , tissues , toulouse , transfuse , trews , trues , twos , underuse , views , whose , woos , worldnews , yoos , youse , zoos