| 单词 | to ooze one's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ooze one's way b. transitive. to ooze one's way: (esp. of water or another liquid substance) to proceed by or as by oozing; to move gradually or imperceptibly. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1825 T. Hood Let. 11 May (1973) 64 A lazy spring,—oozing its way into grass & weeds. 1845 E. A. Poe Gold-bug in Tales 2 A scarcely perceptible creek, oozing its way through a wilderness of reeds and slime. 1897 O. Schreiner Trooper P. Halket i. 87 The steamlet..oozed its way silently on. 1970 T. Hughes Disaster in Crow (1972) 33 The word oozed its way. 1983 A. Humez & N. Humez Alpha to Omega 184 Since glass is really a fluid in its solidified state, window panes that have sat in their frames for fifty or a hundred years are noticeably thicker at the bottom, the glass having by infinitesimal degrees oozed its way downhill. 1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 9 The white meat will be more tender because all the fats and juices will have oozed their way into it. < as lemmas |
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