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Definitions for Seep

[1] to pass, flow, or ooze gradually through a porous substance: Water seeps through cracks in the wall.
[2] (of ideas, methods, etc.) to enter or be introduced at a slow pace: The new ideas finally seeped down to the lower echelons.
[3] to become diffused; permeate: Fog seeped through the trees, obliterating everything.
[4] to cause to seep; filter: The vodka is seeped through charcoal to purify it.
[5] moisture that seeps out; seepage.
[6] a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground has oozed to the surface of the earth.
[7] (intr) to pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings; ooze
[8] a small spring or place where water, oil, etc, has oozed through the ground
[9] another word for seepage

Words related to Seep

permeate, drain, soak, flow, ooze, percolate, trickle, bleed, well, drip, sweat, transude, weep, exude

Words nearby Seep

seemingly, seemly, seen, seen better days, have, seen one, seen them all, seep, seepage, seepage pit, seepy, seer, seeress

Origin of Seep

1780–90; perhaps variant of dial. sipe, itself perhaps continuing Old English sīpian (cognate with Middle Low German sīpen )

Word origin for Seep

Old English sīpian; related to Middle High German sīfen, Swedish dialect sipa

Synonyms for Seep

bleed, drain, flow, ooze, percolate, permeate, soak, trickle, drip, exude, sweat, transude, weep, well