Seep

Definition: Seep

Seep

Verb

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

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

Date "seep" was first used: 1790. (references)

seep

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Seep

Crosswords: Seep

Books

• The Seep (Doomsday Journals) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Slickrock, AMD seep at Iron Mountain Mine.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Slickrock Creek seep.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Tube worms living at a Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon seep are 2 meters long. Lamellibranchia.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Tube worms at a Pacific hydrothermal vent are related to hydrocarbon seep worms. Riftia pachyptila.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Mussels, worms and a spider crab at a hydrocarbon seep community.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

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

Expressions using "seep": seep away ♦ seep in ♦ seep in smth. ♦ seep into ♦ seep out ♦ seep through ♦ seep through smth. ♦ seep water. Additional references.

Beginning with "seep": seep-seep-seep.

Ending with "seep": seep-seep-seep.

Albanian

kulloj (clarify, decant, defecate, drain, exude, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, Leach, percolate, strain, stream), depërtoj (break through, elbow, filter, infiltrate, needle, penetrate, perforate, permeate, soak, thread, worm). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نز (ooze, seepage, spew, sweat, weep), ‏نطح (bunt, butt, gore, horn, leak, ram), ‏تسرب (get home, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, leak, leakage, ooze, seepage), ‏سال (flow, flux, gather, liquefy, liquidate, pour, run, shed, smear, stream, trill), ‏ضياع (death, forfeiture, long lost, loss, waste), ‏خسارة (damage, disadvantage, doom, drain, injury, leakage, loss, miscarriage, mischief, perdition, prejudice, ruination, sacrifice, seepage, spoilage, wastage), ‏النز مقدار من السائل الناز, ‏النز, ‏رشح (basing, distil, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, leach, leak, leakage, lixiviate, nominate, ooze, ooze away, percolate, secrete, still, sweat, transpiration, transpire, trickle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стичам се (congregate, flow, flow in, overflow, pour, pour in, throng), капя (distil, dribble, drip, drop, drop in, gutter, leak, ooze, run, weep), просмуквам се (leak, ooze, permeate, pervade, sink in, strike, transude), прониквам (come through, penetrate, percolate, perforate, pervade, sift, soak, strike, sweep in, work in). (various references)

Chinese 

渗出 (Exudation, seeping). (various references)

Czech

vsáknout do èeho (seep in smth.), prosáknout èím do èeho (seep through smth.). (various references)

Danish

perkolat (leachate, leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, seepage, soakage, vandose water), nedsivende vand (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, soakage, vandose water). (various references)

Dutch

sijpelwater (percolation, seep water, seepage, seepage water), zakwater (leachate, leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, seepage, soakage, vandose water), lekwater (percolation, seep water, seepage, seepage water), kwelwater (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, seepage, seepage water, soakage, vandose water), drupwater (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, soakage, vandose water), doorsijpelingswater (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, soakage, vandose water). (various references)

Farsi 

چکه کردن (Drip, Plash), چکه (Drip, Drop, Leak, Leakage, Seepage, Sprinkle, Trickle), تراوش کردن (Bilge, Exude, Infiltrate, Leak, Ooze, Percolate, Secrete), تراوش طبیعی , ازمیان سوراخهای ریزنفوذکردن , رسوخ (Ooze, Seepage, Sink, Transfusion). (various references)

Finnish

tihkua (exude, ooze, trickle). (various references)

French

suinter, suintement (oil seepage, seepage, seeps), se filtrer, s'écouler (to sell), infiltrer, fuite (seepage), déperdition (seepage). (various references)

German

sickern (drip, leak out, ooze, to drip, to trickle, trickle). (various references)

Greek 

διαρρέω (bilge, leak, ooze). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחלחל (ooze, percolate, permeate, seepage), ל� טוף (drip, drop, exude, flow, rosin). (various references)

Hungarian

szivárog (bled, filtrate, leak, ooze, to bleed, to distil, to distill, to dribble, to exude, to leak, to trickle, to weep, trickle, wept), átitatódik (to impregnate, to steep). (various references)

Italian

filtrare (filter, filtrate, ooze, percolate, sink, strain). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

入り浸る (to seep in, to stay long). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いりびたる (to seep in, to stay long). (various references)

Korean 

스며 나오십시�". (various references)

Manx

sheeley (clarify, clear, discharge, distil, drain, draw, dribble, drip, extract, filter, flow, gravitate, gutter, insemination, instil, Julia, leach, ooze, percolate, refine, run, soil, strain, trickle, weep). (various references)

Pig Latin

eepsay

Portuguese

passar através de (hup, overpass, pass, penetrate, percolation, pervade, Pierce, reeve), infiltrar-se (infiltrate, oozy, percolate). (various references)

Romanian

se prelinge (drip, ooze, trickle), infiltra (creep, infiltrate, penetrate, slink). (various references)

Russian 

просачиваться (infiltrate, infiltrating, leak, leaked, percolate, silt through, transpire). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

curiti (dribble, drip, leak, ooze, trickle, water). (various references)

Spanish

rezumarse (infiltrate, leak, ooze), filtrarse (filtrate, leak, leak in, leak out, percolate, permeate, sift), colarse (gatecrash, jump the queue, percolate, push in, thread). (various references)

Swedish

sippra ut (exude, transpire), läcka (escape, leak, leakage, run, run-out). (various references)

Turkish

süzülmek (be filtered, distil, distill, drain, filter, float, flow, glide, percolate, plane, ride, soar, volplane), sızmak (creep, effuse, emanate, escape, exude, filter out, infiltrate, leak, leak out, ooze, ooze out, percolate, permeate, run, run out, transpire, transude, trickle, weep). (various references)

Ukranian 

просочуватися (filter, funnel, infiltrate, leak, leak in, leak out, ooze, percolate, soak, soak through, transpire), проникати (come through, elbow, leak in, penetrate, perforate, permeate, shuffle in, strike, work in, worm). (various references)

zum. (various references)

sipian. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "seep": seepage, seepages, seeped, seepier, seepiest, seeping, seeps, seepy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Seep" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aseep, Ceep, eep, esap, Escp, espe, espee, Meep, Osep, saep, Sagep, sbep, sceap, scep, sdep, seap, sebeb, seeb, seee, seeg, seeq, seey, seez, Senepol, sepe, sepi, sepr, seq, serept, serp, sfep, shep, sieb, siep, Siepi, sjep, skeep, smep, sneepy, snep, spee, spep, sqep, srep, suep, svep, swep, sxep, syep, symp, syp, tseeep, veep, yeep, zeap, zeep, zeip, zepe, zepp. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pees.

-1 letter: pee, pes, see.

-2 letters: es, pe.

+1 letter: beeps, cepes, deeps, epees, jeeps, keeps, neeps, pease, pedes, peeks, peels, peens, peeps, peers, peise, pekes, peles, penes, perse, prees, prese, seeps, seepy, sheep, sleep, speed, speel, speer, spree, steep, sweep, veeps, weeps.

+2 letters: apexes, asleep, bleeps, cheeps, clepes, creeps, crepes, depose, elapse, elopes, epodes, eposes, escape, espied, espies, etapes, expels, expose, herpes, keleps, kreeps, lepers, passee, payees, peaces, peages, peasen, peases, peeves, peised, peises, pekoes, pelves, pensee, peones, perses, peruse, pesade, peseta, pesewa, pester, pestle, peters, pewees, pieces, please, plebes, preens, preset, prexes, prezes, purees, repegs, repels, repose, rupees, seeped, semple, sempre, sepses, septet, serape, sleeps, sleepy, spahee, specie, speech, speedo, speeds, speedy, speels, speers, speise, spence, spense, spewed, spewer, sphene, sphere, spleen, sprees, steeps, steppe, sweeps, sweepy, tepees, topees, vesper, wheeps.

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