ooze out

Frequency: 6.53.2 per million words

to flow or seep from an enclosed space

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Examples (10)

  • Cream oozed out at the sides.
  • A thick, oily liquid began to ooze out of the crack.
  • The sap slowly oozed out from the tree bark.
  • Pus oozed out from the infected wound.
  • Fear oozed out of his every pore.
  • Confidence oozed out of the victorious team.
  • Water was beginning to ooze out of the old pipes.
  • A strange smell started to ooze out of the cellar.
  • Mud oozed out between his toes as he walked through the swamp.
  • The truth eventually oozed out despite their efforts to conceal it.