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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).
See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.
Pronunciation
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[edit]seep (third-person singular simple present seeps, present participle seeping, simple past and past participle seeped)
- (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
- Water has seeped through the roof.
- The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
- Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.
- Fear began to seep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.
- (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.
- The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.
- (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
- The crack is seeping water.
- 2015, Crack repair service[1], archived from the original on 23 February 2020:
- If the crack is seeping water, the foam totally stops the leakage.
- 2009 April 16, Crownvic forums[2]:
- Just when I thought I was done checking it over, I smelled coolant....remove the engine cover and bam! 1 inch crack is seeping coolant!
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to ooze through pores
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Noun
[edit]seep (plural seeps)
- A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
- Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
- The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
- A seafloor vent.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 356:
- Another idea was that filamentous bacteria covering the hairs [of the Yeti crab] would either neutralize gases emitted from the vent or serve the crab directly as a food source. And this last idea received support when a second species of Yeti crab was discovered on cold seeps on the deep-sea floor near Costa Rica.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a place where water seeps out of the ground
a seepage
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[edit]seep (plural sepe)
Descendants
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Low German sêpe.
Noun
[edit]seep (genitive seebi, partitive seepi)
Declension
[edit]Declension of seep (type paks)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | seep | seebid |
genitive | seebi | seepide |
partitive | seepi | seepe / seepisid |
illative | seepi / seebisse | seepidesse |
inessive | seebis | seepides |
elative | seebist | seepidest |
allative | seebile | seepidele |
adessive | seebil | seepidel |
ablative | seebilt | seepidelt |
translative | seebiks | seepideks |
terminative | seebini | seepideni |
essive | seebina | seepidena |
abessive | seebita | seepideta |
comitative | seebiga | seepidega |
Massachusett
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