Ooze

Definition: Ooze

Ooze

Noun

1. Any thick messy substance.

2. The process of seeping.

Verb

1. Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings.

2. Release through one's pores, as of sweat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ooze" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

Note: Ooze \Ooze\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Oozed; Oozing.]. (references)

Computing

Geography

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Ooze

Disclosure

Be disclosed; transpire, come to light; come in sight; (be visible); become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover; itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.

Egress

Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape.

Ejection

Spew forth, erupt, ooze; (emerge).

River

Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress).

Semiliquidity

Emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture; marsh .

Crosswords: Ooze

We got the Foot up there with the ooze and we're down here playing Century 21. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Ooze (2000)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

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Books

• Bull Harris and the Purple Ooze (reference)

• Making an Ooze Monster (reference)

• Ooze #8 (reference)

• R. L. Stine's the Ghosts of Fear Street/Stay Away from the Tree House/Eye of the Fortune Teller/Fright Nite/the Ooze (reference)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (reference)

  (more book examples)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• The Ooze (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Under the dark vault of their cave, they are for ever reproduced from the ooze of society

Little droplets of blood began to ooze from the wound

I saw the water ooze in at several crannies, although the leaks were not considerable, and I endeavored to stop them as well as I could

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "ooze": ooze away ♦ ooze calf ♦ ooze confidence ♦ ooze finish ♦ ooze leather ♦ ooze out ♦ ooze through ♦ ooze with ♦ ooze with sweat ♦ radiolarian ooze ♦ sea ooze ♦ tan ooze. Additional references.

Albanian

zhdukem (bugger off, die, disappear, fall away, go down the drain, grow dim, melt, merge, scram, vanish), rrjedhje (derivation, dotage, dribble, efflux, effusion, escape, flow, flowing, flux, leak, leakage, outflow), rrjedh (accrue, arise, come, come from, course, derive, descend, dote, escape, flow, flow down, flow from, flux, leak, outflow, proceed, pump, result, run, spring, trickle), pikoj (blob, dapple, distil, distill, dribble, drip, drizzle, drop, leak, trickle), pikim (dribble, drip, exudation, leak, leakage), nxjerr lagështinë, lym (loess, silt, slob), llum (dregs, dross, grounds, Lees, raff, ragtag, riffraff, scab, scum, scut, sludge, tails, vermin, wash), baltë (clay, dirt, foulness, mire, muck, mud, muddiness, silt, slime, slob, soil). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مستنقع (bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, moss, patch, pond, quag, quagmire, slew, slough, sump, swamp), ‏نز (seep, seepage, spew, sweat, weep), ‏نضح (asperse, aspersion, douche, exudation, exude, perfusion, pulverization, pulverize, spray, sprinkle, spurt, sweat, transpiration), ‏وحل (bespatter, clay, dirt, mire, mud, muddling, muddy, quaggy, silt, slime, slob), ‏تسرب (get home, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, leak, leakage, seep, seepage), ‏طين (clay, daub, earth, loam, lute, luting, mire, muck, mud, point, silt, slime, sludge, slush), ‏ضمحل (decay, disappear, waste away), ‏خرج (exit, give off, go, go away, go out, march out, out, pannier, party, step out), ‏الناز, ‏الردغة راسب من طين, ‏إنسلال (slip, sneaking, stealth, stealthiness), ‏أطلق بطريقة إرتشاحية, ‏رشح (basing, distil, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, leach, leak, leakage, lixiviate, nominate, ooze away, percolate, secrete, seep, still, sweat, transpiration, transpire, trickle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сълзя (run, weep), разчувам се (leak), тресавище (bog, mire, moor, morass, quag, quagmire, sink, slew, swamp), тиня (mire, mud, silt, slime, slob), кал (dirt, mire, muck, mud, slime, slob, slop), капя (distil, dribble, drip, drop, drop in, gutter, leak, run, seep, weep), мочур (bog), просмуквам се (leak, permeate, pervade, seep, sink in, strike, transude), процеждам се (percolate, sift), излъчвам (beam, discharge, eradiate, exhale, exude, give off, give out, irradiate, put out, radiate, reek, respire, scintillate, send out, shed, throw up), изпускам (elide, emit, exhale, exhaust, exude, give off, heave, leave out, let fall, let out, lose, muff, omit, pour, put forth, quit, release, run, shoot, throw out, utter, vent), изпарявам се (boil down, dry off, evaporate, exhale, fume, make one's scarce, make oneself scarce, mosey, scat, skedaddle, steam away, vanish into the void, vapor, vaporize, vapour, volatilize), дъбилна течност, дъбилен разтвор. (various references)

Chinese 

爛泥 , 汪 (expanse of water), 渗流 (Oozed, oozing, seepage, transfusion). (various references)

Czech

sliz (mucus, slime), prosakovat (infiltrate, leak, percolate), proklubat se, mokvat, kal (dregs, settlement, sewage, silt, sludge), bláto (dirt, mire, muck, mud), bahno (morass, mud, quag, quagmire, sludge, wash). (various references)

Dutch

rundsnappa (ooze leather), melkachtig slijm (milky ooze). (various references)

Farsi 

چکیده (Succinct, Tabloid), لجنزار, لای (In, Sediment, Silt, Sludge), تراوش کردن (Bilge, Exude, Infiltrate, Leak, Percolate, Secrete, Seep), جاری (Current, Sisterinlaw), جریان (Circuit, Course, Flow, Fluor, Gush, Income, Inset, Outflow, Progress, Rede, Stream, Tide), اهسته جریان یافتن , رسوخ (Seep, Seepage, Sink, Transfusion), شیره (Extract, Juice, Molasses, Sap, Syrup), شهد (Ambrosia, Honey, Molasses, Nectar), بیرون دادن (Emission, Emit, Evolve, Exhale, Vent), بستردریا. (various references)

Finnish

tihkua (exude, seep, trickle), lieju (mire, mud, slime), kihota (trickle), herua (trickle). (various references)

French

boue. (various references)

German

sickern (drip, leak out, seep, to drip, to trickle, trickle), Schlamm (dirt, mire, mud, silt, silts, slime, sludge). (various references)

Greek 

στάζω (burst, dribble, drip, drop, leak, seep, trickle, trill), λάσπη (alluvium, cement, clay, mire, mortar, mud, puddle, silt, slab, slime, slosh, sludge). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחלחל (percolate, permeate, seep, seepage), ל�"לוף (drip, leak, trickle), לטפטף (drip, spit, spot), שרף (resin), עסיס (juice, syrup), בוץ � וזלי (slime). (various references)

Hungarian

szivárgás (bleed, leak, leakage, seepage, trickle), sár (dirt, mess-up, mire, mud, slob, slobber, sludge, splash), váladék (eduction, excretion, matter, phlegm, secretion), szőr (fur, hair, nap, pubescence), nyirkosság (clamminess, damp, dampness, humidity, moist, moistness, moisture, sweat), lassú kiáramlás, elszivárgás (escape, fugacity, leak, leakage, oozing, seepage, ullage), cserfőzet, csepegés (dribble, drip, dripping, dropping, oozing, running), átcsurgás. (various references)

Indonesian

lumpur (mire, mud, slime, slosh, sludge, slush). (various references)

Italian

stillare (distil, distill, drip, weep), pantano (bog, mire, morass, quagmire, Slough, swamp), melma (mire, mud), filtrare (filter, filtrate, percolate, seep, sink, strain), colare (drain, drip, filter, strain). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

垂れる (to, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to hang, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たれる (to confer, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to give, to hang, to leave behind, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag, to trickle), ヘドロ (chemical ooze, slime, sludge), ながれでる (to drift away, to flow out, to gush forth, to leak, to ooze out, to pour out, to stream out), ながれ� す (to drift away, to flow out, to gush forth, to leak, to ooze out, to pour out, to stream out), しみでる (to exude, to ooze, to percolate, to soak through), ふっきれる (to become unbound by, to break through, to ooze out), にじむ (to blot, to blur, to ooze, to run, to spread). (various references)

Manx

sheeley magh (lolling), bolgys (bogginess, ooziness). (various references)

Pig Latin

oozeay.(various references)

Portuguese

vaza, rio ou mar, lodo (clay, dirt, mud, silt, slime, slob, sludge, slush), limo (mud, slime, slob), lama (dirt, mire, mud, slob, slurry), infiltrar-se (infiltrate, percolate, seep), gotear, exsudar (exude), esvair-se (evanish, jade), escoar (bail, buttress, drain, lapse, leak, run off), correr lentamente. (various references)

Romanian

noroi (clay, filth, mire, muck, mud, sediment, slime, slush), curge foarte încet, curgere foarte lentã, elimina (cashier, cut out, eliminate, erase, expel, liberate, oust, pass, put out, remove), elimina prin transpiraţie, infiltraţie (infiltration), aluviune (alluvia, alluvium, drift, silt, warp), nãmol (heap, muck, mud, silt), tinã (clay, slime), pãmânt nãmolos, scurgere foarte lentã, se prelinge (drip, seep, trickle), se scurge foarte încet, sol nãmolos, supurare (maturation, suppuration), mâl (mud). (various references)

Russian 

сочиться (distil, trickle, trickle down). (various references)

Scottish

snigh (drop, fall in drops, ooze through in drops), drùidh (affect, influence, ooze through, penetrate, soak). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sepija (sepia), mulj (mud, silt, slime, sludge), izlučiti (excrete, exude), ispustiti (drop, elide, heave, let off, omit, release), glib (mire, silt, slime), curiti (dribble, drip, leak, seep, trickle, water), curenje (drip, leak, leakage, seepage, trickle). (various references)

Spanish

rezumar (exude, leak). (various references)

Swedish

sippra (filter, percolate, trickle). (various references)

Thai

ไหลซึม, ทำให้ไหลซึม, การไหลซึมอย่างช้าๆ. (various references)

Turkish

sulu çamur (slosh, sludge, slush), sızmak (creep, effuse, emanate, escape, exude, filter out, infiltrate, leak, leak out, ooze out, percolate, permeate, run, run out, seep, transpire, transude, trickle, weep), sızma (efflux, infiltration, leak, leakage, oozing, outflow, percolation, permeation), sızdırmak (chisel, drag out, drip, effuse, exude, leak, leak out, percolate, suck, take in, transpire, wheedle smth. out of smb., work), sızan şey, sızıntı (creep, creepage, efflux, emanation, escape, leak, leakage, outflow, runaway, seepage), meşe kabuğu suyu, kaçırmak (abduct, blow, chill, exude, flush, give off, hijack, kidnap, ladder, let escape, let slip, lose, make off with, Miss, pass up, put off, rape, ravish, shuffle, slip, snatch, spirit away, spoil, whisk), duyulmak (be felt, be heard, be heard of, filter out), dip çamuru. (various references)

Ukrainian

мул (clay, mud, mule, silt, slime), дубильна рідина, повільний плин, повільно текти, просочування (dripping, imbibition, leakage, percolation, saturation, seepage), просочуватися (filter, funnel, infiltrate, leak, leak in, leak out, percolate, seep, soak, soak through, transpire), болото (back water, bog, mire, morass, quag, quagmire, slew, slue, sump, swamp, wash), дубильний відвар, зникати (come off, die, die down, disappear, dispel, dissipate, evanish, go out of being, pass away, pass off, pass out, peter out, vanish, walk, wan, wear away), убувати (decrease, ebb, recede, wane), виділяння (accentuation), виділяти (accent, accentuate, apportion, appropriate, discriminate, evolve, excrete, exempt, exude, give off, point out, secrete, signalize, single out, singularize, tab, throw off), витікання (discharge, drain, effluence, emanation, escape, issue, outflow, outlet), витікати (drain, emanate, leak away, outstream, run out, spring, spring out), твань (clay, mud), сочитися (bleed, dribble), липка грязь (batter). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bùn sông. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ooze": oozed, oozes. (additional references)

Words ending with "ooze": booze, schmooze, shmooze, snooze. (additional references)

Words containing "ooze": boozed, boozer, boozers, boozes, doozer, doozers, schmoozed, schmoozes, shmoozed, shmoozes, snoozed, snoozer, snoozers, snoozes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ooze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: azoe, Cocozza, cooze, eoz, Ezoe, fooze, gooze, ioz, ioza, joze, koza, oaoe, oase, oaz, ocoe, oeoe, oez, oeze, ofoe, ogooue, ohoe, oiez, Oige, oise, oiz, oje, ojoe, okoe, okosan, omoe, onze, ookey, oone, ooosh, oooze, oos, oose, oote, oove, ooz, ooza, oozbe, oozelum, oozer, oozey, oozi, oozie, oozo, oqe, oqoe, Osee, osi, osoe, ounze, ouoe, ouz, ouzi, ovoe, Owzat, oxoe, oyoe, oyze, oza, Ozd, oze, ozee, Ozep, Ozi, ozie, ozl, ozle, ozo, ozoa, ozoe, ozor, ozote, ozs, ozt, ozu, ozzer, Ozzi, pooze, Qoboza, Rogozen, rooze, Tokoza, uza, uze, uzee, uzo, uzu, wooze, woze, yoze, zooe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: zoo.

-2 letters: oe.

+1 letter: booze, oozed, oozes, ozone.

+2 letters: boozed, boozer, boozes, doozer, doozie, foozle, oozier, ozones, rebozo, snooze, zoomed.

+3 letters: boozers, boozier, doozers, doozies, ectozoa, entozoa, epizoon, floozie, foozled, foozler, foozles, nonzero, odorize, ooziest, ozonate, ozonide, ozonise, ozonize, rebozos, shmooze, snoozed, snoozer, snoozes, snoozle, woozier, zooecia, zooglea, zootier.

+4 letters: booziest, colonize, colorize, ectozoan, ectozoon, endozoic, entozoal, entozoan, entozoic, entozoon, enzootic, epizooty, floozies, foozlers, kolhozes, kolkozes, metazoon, motorize, odorized, odorizes, ooziness, opsonize, ozonated, ozonates, ozonides, ozonised, ozonises, ozonized, ozonizer, ozonizes, robotize, schmooze, shmoozed, shmoozes, snoozers, snoozier, snoozled, snoozles, sodomize, solonetz, wooziest, zoochore, zooecium, zoogenic, zoogleae, zoogleal, zoogleas, zoogloea, zoolater, zoometry, zoonoses, zoophile, zoophobe, zoophyte, zoosperm, zoospore, zootiest.