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ooze

verb

1 blood oozed from a long scratch on his forehead:

seep, discharge, flow, exude, trickle, drip, dribble, issue, filter, percolate, escape, leak, drain, empty, bleed, sweat, well, leach;

Medicine extravasate;

rare filtrate, transude, exudate.

2 she was positively oozing charm:

exude, gush, drip, pour forth, give out, send out, emit, breathe, let loose, display, exhibit, demonstrate, manifest.

noun

1 the ooze of pus:

seepage, seeping, discharge, flow, exudation, trickle, trickling, drip, dribble, filtration, percolation, excretion, escape, leak, leakage, drainage, emptying, bleeding, sweating, welling, leaching, secretion;

Medicine extravasation.

2 the skeletons of zooplankton accumulate in ooze on the ocean floor:

mud, slime, alluvium, silt, mire, bog, sludge, slush, muck, dirt, deposit;

British, dialect clag;

Scottish, & Northern English clart;

Irish slob.

ooze (1) Oxford Dictionary of English