英语词汇“seep”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINseep

Origin:

Old English sipian

VERB TABLE

seep

Simple Form
Present	it	seeps
Present		seep
Past	it, they	seeped
Present perfect	they	have seeped
	it	has seeped
Past perfect	it, they	had seeped
Future	it, they	will seep
Future perfect	it, they	will have seeped

Continuous Form
Present	they	are seeping
	it	is seeping
Past	they	were seeping
	it	was seeping
Present perfect	they	have been seeping
	it	has been seeping
Past perfect	it, they	had been seeping
Future	it, they	will be seeping
Future perfect	it, they	will have been seeping

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Work has seemingly seeped into everything, including dinner parties.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Inside is a plastic platform which is perforated to allow liquids to seep through to the tank in the bottom.
Many of these molecules seeped into the initially crystal-clear whisky from the oak casks in which the liquor was aged.
She held her pyjama bottoms up with one hand, as wakefulness seeped slowly into her head like a sunrise.
That the turmoil was seeping into the villages disturbed Gandhi especially and he resolved to go to Noakhall.
The car was sluggish, as if his thoughts had seeped into the car through his hands.
The techniques of the coffee table brigade were seeping through into academia, which was no bad thing.
They argue that unseemly haggling with Congress will allow the momentum of the referendum victory to seep away.
They melt and seep into other dreams, gaining strength, getting wider and deeper as they flow downhill, gathering debris.

Longman Language Activatorwhen something enters a space, especially through a surface► enter

· The bullet entered his rib cage from the left side.enter through/by etc · Bacteria can enter through a cut or graze on the skin.

► penetrate

if something penetrates an object or substance, it fully enters it, or goes through it: · The sun's rays can penetrate the sea to a depth of twenty metres.· He threw a grenade that penetrated the wall of the building and exploded inside.

► seep in

if liquid seeps in , it gradually enters a substance or a place: · Despite all our efforts to stop it, the floodwater was still seeping in.seep into something: · Chemicals from the plant have seeped into the city's water supply.

► permeate

if a liquid or gas permeates an object or substance it enters it and spreads through it: · Toxic chemicals may permeate the soil, threatening the environment.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► away

· Here, the hours seep away like draining rain.· We all imagine some invisible sub stance seeping away at death.· There is a sense of all rational control or deliberation seeping away or being under much less deliberative control.· They argue that unseemly haggling with Congress will allow the momentum of the referendum victory to seep away.· It would take months, perhaps a year, for such strength to seep away.· The lock had been built on quicksand, and gave continual trouble as the ground subsided and water seeped away.· Then slowly the tension began to seep away.· I had grown more and more tired, energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night.

► down

· Water seeps down through the limestone, carrying along tiny deposits of the rock it's washing away.· Hopefully, it seeps down to your bones and then you can portray somebody like this accurately and as realistically as possible.· You can often see translucent curtain formations - where water has seeped down a sloping, overhanging wall.· Heat entered the flat through the walls and windows, seeped down from the tar roof.· The congealing blood from the severed arteries of the snow-soaked head drenching the carpet and seeping down between the floor boards.· The rain seeps down through the snow and forms a bit of terra firma when the temperature plummets.· His trousers were ripped and the blood seeped down his leg from the gash inches above his knee.· We shivered; the rain was getting colder, seeping down our backs and numbing our hands and feet.

► in

· When he closed them behind him, the noise of traffic seeped in.· The muted reaction is a measure of how deeply the degradation has seeped in.· It seemed to be seeping in from all sides, but how?· Cold air seeped in through the shattered window with a moan.· Metazoans are virtually absent except in some of the lakes where fresh water seeps in at the edges.· A draft of cool air seeping in around my feet and calves.· A faint, stale aroma like the residue of sweat - the city's stench seeping in.· It also had a smoking room, which was furnished with one electric light and pressurised to prevent hydrogen seeping in.

► out

· Sticky pools and channels of drink were seeping out through the gaps in the floorboards on to the sand beneath the kiosk.· As I soaked in the hot pool, I felt the weeks of accumulated tear-gas residue seeping out of my pores.· Slowly, though, word is seeping out.· Dark was seeping out of the rock and it was difficult to see the steps ahead.· It was as if his mind was a leaking vessel, his sanity seeping out like water.· The smell of death seeped out of the zippered pouches and made the living retch.· Prestige and power have seeped out of professions as women joined them.· However, since nothing substantial has seeped out in this porous capital, that's doubtful.

► through

· The techniques of the coffee table brigade were seeping through into academia, which was no bad thing.· But hope seeped through and stained you anyway.· Inside is a plastic platform which is perforated to allow liquids to seep through to the tank in the bottom.· She didn't move away but allowed the small pressure to seep through to her very soul where it nestled comfortably.· The door that Fenella had indicated was the one with ill-fitting seams that permitted the red glow to seep through.· Then the water had gradually seeped through, so it was normal again.· Jean-Claude's less assured tones seeped through.· And what form would the Evil take, as it came seeping through?

NOUN► blood

· He felt blood seeping into his shoe.· They tried to loosen them but failed. Blood began to seep from his hands.· Then she stopped dead in her tracks, the blood seeping from her veins, leaving her stiff and white with shock.· His skull had been kicked in and the dark blood seeped out, mingling with the grey sludge of his brains.· Red on the bandage where blood has seeped through.· His trousers were ripped and the blood seeped down his leg from the gash inches above his knee.

► water

· Rain water had slowly seeped through the top section and dropped on to the inner.· The lock had been built on quicksand, and gave continual trouble as the ground subsided and water seeped away.· The water seeping around the abutment of the Saint Francis Dam was brown.· How far into the water table have they seeped?· It was a telltale sign that water was seeping through the canyon walls, softening the mica shale and conglomerate abutment.· You can often see translucent curtain formations - where water has seeped down a sloping, overhanging wall.· Then the water had gradually seeped through, so it was normal again.

VERB► begin

· Nagging unease began to seep into Delaney's weary bones.· But as trickles of news began to seep through the court, detailing the king's every move, she welcomed them.· The rain, still fresh on the grass, began to seep through the soles of his boots.· Then slowly the tension began to seep away.· Blood began to seep from his hands.· The art begins to seep deep into his psychological being.· The smoke began seeping through the now closed door so Ralph hurried towards the other exit.· She was still shivering when he finished, but the warmth gradually began to seep inwards to where her bones were chilled.