Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: ooze
IPA transcription: ['uz]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: seepage, ooze, oozing
    Meaning: the process of seeping
  • Synonyms: sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze
    Meaning: any thick, viscous matter
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: exude, exudate, transude, ooze_out, ooze
    Meaning: release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores"
  • Synonyms: seep, ooze
    Meaning: pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
Usage examples
  • Slimy gaps and causeways, winding among old wooden piles, with a sickly substance clinging to the latter, like green hair, and the rags of last year's handbills offering rewards for drowned men fluttering above high-water mark, led down through the ooze and slush to the ebb-tide.