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adj. - Leaking out slowly.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Verb (used without object) : Water seeps through cracks in the wall. ,The new ideas finally seeped down to the lower echelons. ,Fog seeped through the trees,...
  • Verb (used with object) : The vodka is seeped through charcoal to purify it
  • He lay against the stone wall, blood seeping from a wound at the back of his head.
  • Swiftly comes the deprecating simile: "like foam seeping from a fire extinguisher".
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