单词 | seep |
释义 | seep/siːp /verb [no object, with adverbial of direction] (Of a liquid) flow or leak slowly through porous material or small holes: water began to seep through the soles of his boots...
Synonyms ooze, trickle, exude, drip, dribble, flow, issue, discharge, excrete, escape, leak, drain, bleed, sweat, well, leach, filter, percolate, permeate, soak; Medicine extravasate rare filtrate, transude, exudate noun North American A place where petroleum or water oozes slowly out of the ground.The stable isotope composition of the first and second stages of the worm tube carbonates is similar to that of carbonates from modern petroleum seeps....
OriginLate 18th century: perhaps a dialect form of Old English sīpian 'to soak'. Rhymes |
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