ooze /uːz/noun 7verb 2forms 3 noun7 •An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth. •Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.my son i' th' ooze is bedded. — 1610 •A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art. — 1826 •A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground. •Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather. •(no longer used) Secretion, humour. •(no longer used) Juice, sap. verb2 •(figurative) To be secreted or slowly leak.I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country. — 1868 •(figurative) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated. — 1878 formsoozed · oozing · oozes
