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Noun: ooze  ooz
  1. Any thick, viscous matter
    - sludge, slime, goo [informal], goop [N. Amer, informal], gook [informal], guck [N. Amer, informal], gunk [informal], muck, thick, gloop [Brit, Cdn, informal]
     
  2. The process of seeping
    - seepage, oozing
Verb: ooze  ooz
  1. Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
    - seep
     
  2. Release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
    "ooze sweat through the pores";
    - exude, exudate, transude, ooze out

Sounds like: on, ooz

Derived forms: oozing, oozes, oozed

Type of: course, egest, eliminate, excrete, feed, flow, flowing, matter, pass, run

Encyclopedia: Ooze