OOZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ooze mean? 

• OOZE (noun)
  The noun OOZE has 2 senses:

1. any thick, viscous matter

2. the process of seeping

  Familiarity information: OOZE used as a noun is rare.

• OOZE (verb)
  The verb OOZE has 2 senses:

1. pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

2. release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities

  Familiarity information: OOZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OOZE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any thick, viscous matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

goo; gook; goop; guck; gunk; muck; ooze; slime; sludge

Hypernyms ("ooze" is a kind of...):

matter (that which has mass and occupies space)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ooze"):

sapropel (sludge (rich in organic matter) that accumulates at the bottom of lakes or oceans)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The process of seeping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

ooze; oozing; seepage

Hypernyms ("ooze" is a kind of...):

flow; flowing (the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ooze"):

exudation; transudation (the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes)

Derivation:

ooze (release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities)

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

oozy (leaking out slowly)

• OOZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ooze    ... he / she / it oozes   
Past simple: oozed   
Past participle: oozed   
-ing form: oozing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

ooze; seep

Hypernyms (to "ooze" is one way to...):

course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

ooze; oozing (the process of seeping)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

exudate; exude; ooze; ooze out; transude

Context example:

exude sweat through the pores

Hypernyms (to "ooze" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ooze"):

distil; distill (give off (a liquid))

fume; reek (be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face)

transpire (give off (water) through the skin)

extravasate (geology: cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth)

stream (exude profusely)

gum (exude or form gum)

release; secrete (generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids)

froth (exude or expel foam)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

ooze; oozing (the process of seeping)

 Context examples 

Look how the water is still oozing into that deeper print!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He looked at the other reproachfully, tears oozing into his eyes and down his cheeks.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Life had become cheap and tawdry, a beastly and inarticulate thing, a soulless stirring of the ooze and slime.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I could see them sipping on the droplets oozing from the mycelium,” he said.

(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I saw the water ooze in at several crannies, although the leaks were not considerable, and I endeavoured to stop them as well as I could.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When he had put up his things for the night he took out his flute, and blew at it, until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at the keys.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And he punched on and on, slower and slower, as the last shreds of vitality oozed from him, through centuries and aeons and enormous lapses of time, until, in a dim way, he became aware that the nameless thing was sinking, slowly sinking down to the rough board-planking of the bridge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He took notice of a general tradition, that Yahoos had not been always in their country; but that many ages ago, two of these brutes appeared together upon a mountain; whether produced by the heat of the sun upon corrupted mud and slime, or from the ooze and froth of the sea, was never known; that these Yahoos engendered, and their brood, in a short time, grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the whole nation; that the Houyhnhnms, to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd; and destroying the elder, every Houyhnhnm kept two young ones in a kennel, and brought them to such a degree of tameness, as an animal, so savage by nature, can be capable of acquiring, using them for draught and carriage; that there seemed to be much truth in this tradition, and that those creatures could not be yinhniamshy (or aborigines of the land), because of the violent hatred the Houyhnhnms, as well as all other animals, bore them, which, although their evil disposition sufficiently deserved, could never have arrived at so high a degree if they had been aborigines, or else they would have long since been rooted out; that the inhabitants, taking a fancy to use the service of the Yahoos, had, very imprudently, neglected to cultivate the breed of asses, which are a comely animal, easily kept, more tame and orderly, without any offensive smell, strong enough for labour, although they yield to the other in agility of body, and if their braying be no agreeable sound, it is far preferable to the horrible howlings of the Yahoos.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)