seep
verb /siːp/
/siːp/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they seep | /siːp/ /siːp/ |
| he / she / it seeps | /siːps/ /siːps/ |
| past simple seeped | /siːpt/ /siːpt/ |
| past participle seeped | /siːpt/ /siːpt/ |
| -ing form seeping | /ˈsiːpɪŋ/ /ˈsiːpɪŋ/ |
- + adv./prep. (especially of liquids) to flow slowly and in small quantities through something or into something synonym trickle
- Blood was beginning to seep through the bandages.
- Water seeped from a crack in the pipe.
- (figurative) Gradually the pain seeped away.
Extra Examples- The damp seeped through her thin shoes.
- The power had gradually seeped away.
- The gas seeps out of the rock from an underground source.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- gradually
- slowly
- away
- …
- begin to
- start to
- from
- into
- out of
- …
Word Originlate 18th cent.: perhaps a dialect form of Old English sīpian ‘to soak’.