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seep
(sēp)intr.v. seeped, seep·ing, seeps
1. To pass slowly through small openings or pores; ooze: Water is seeping into the basement.
2. To enter, depart, or become diffused gradually: The importance of the situation finally seeped into my brain. The news seeped out bit by bit.
n.
A place on land or underwater where a liquid or gas oozes out of the ground.
[Alteration of dialectal sipe.]
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seep
(siːp)vb
(intr) to pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings; ooze
n
1. a small spring or place where water, oil, etc, has oozed through the ground
2. another word for seepage
[Old English sīpian; related to Middle High German sīfen, Swedish dialect sipa]
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seep
(sip)v.i.
1. to pass, flow, or ooze gradually, as through a porous substance.
2. to become diffused; permeate.
v.t. 3. to cause to seep; filter.
n. 4. moisture that seeps out; seepage.
5. a small spring, pool, or the like, where liquid from the ground has oozed to the surface.
[1780–90; perhaps variant of dial. sipe, itself perhaps continuing Old English sīpian (c. Middle Low German sīpen)]
seep′y, adj.
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seep
Past participle: seeped
Gerund: seeping
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seep
verb ooze, well, leak, soak, bleed, weep, trickle, leach, exude, permeate, percolate Radioactive water had seeped into underground reservoirs.
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seep
[siːp] VI → filtrarseto seep through/into/from → filtrarse or colarse por/en/de
seep away VI + ADV → escurrirse
seep in VI + ADV → filtrarse
seep out VI + ADV → escurrirse
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seep
(siːp) verb (of liquids) to flow slowly eg through a very small opening. Blood seeped out through the bandage round his head; All his confidence seeped away.filtrar
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