ooze

When something oozes, it comes out slowly or it flows in a slow, thick mass of liquidy substance.

• There’s some thick oily stuff oozing from my engine.
• Mud oozed onto the highway following the storm.
• Mucus is oozing from the boy’s nose. I think he’s sick.
• A little bit of blood oozed through the bandage that was placed on the woman’s injured leg.
• Sweat oozed from all over the runner’s body after the race was over.

Hot lava is oozing from the volcano.

This word is also used in a figurative sense:

• His brain is oozing with knowledge.
• Young women ooze with desire for the members of One Dimension.
• The football players are oozing with confidence following their most recent victory.

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January 15, 2014