ooze Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any thick, viscous matter
    goo; gunk; guck; gook; slime; muck; goop; sludge.
  2. noun the process of seeping
    oozing; seepage.
  3. verb pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
    seep.
  4. verb release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
    ooze out; exudate; exude; transude.
    • exude sweat through the pores

WordNet

Ooze noun
Etymology
OE. wose, AS. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to ws juice, ooze, Icel. vas wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G. wasen.
Definitions
  1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded." Shak.
  2. Soft flow; spring. Prior.
  3. The liquor of a tan vat.
Ooze intransitive verb
Etymology
Prov. Eng. weeze, wooz. See Ooze, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Oozed ; present participle & verbal noun Oozing
Definitions
  1. To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
    The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass. Thomson.
  2. Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
Ooze transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To cause to ooze. Alex. Smith.

Webster 1913