SEEPAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seepage mean? 

• SEEPAGE (noun)
  The noun SEEPAGE has 1 sense:

1. the process of seeping

  Familiarity information: SEEPAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEEPAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of seeping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

ooze; oozing; seepage

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

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

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

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

Derivation:

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