| 单词 | ooze |
| 释义 | ooze (once / 1454 pages) vn The beauty of the word ooze is not only that it's both a noun and a verb but also that the word sounds like what it means. The ooze on the bottom of the pond oozed between your toes. When something oozes, it seeps out slowly in an unappetizing way. Cheese sauce oozes out of the container. Sludge oozes out of a treatment plant. Cream oozes out of a tube. Whatever is oozing is referred to as ooze. After an oil spill, a cleanup crew has to clean up the ooze that collects on the shore. It can also be used to describe someone's behavior if it's especially awful. A person who is really bad, for example, can be said to ooze evil. WORD FAMILYooze: oozed, oozes, oozing, oozy+/oozing: oozings/oozy: oozier, oozily USAGE EXAMPLESThe play oozed with flair as the Wizards separated themselves early from an inferior opponent. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The officer overseeing the move looked at the oozing bag with disgust. The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016) Micah was once like some of the kids he’s now mentoring, a young baseball player from Gainesville oozing with talent. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1v pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings Syn|Hyper seep course, feed, flow, run move along, of liquids 2v release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities Syn|Hypo|Hyper exudate, exude, ooze out, transude distil, distill give off (a liquid) fume, reekbe wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face transpiregive off (water) through the skin extravasategeology: cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth streamexude profusely gumexude or form gum release, secretegenerate and separate from cells or bodily fluids frothexude or expel foam watersecrete or form water, as tears or saliva latherexude sweat or lather egest, eliminate, excrete, pass eliminate from the body 3n any thick, viscous matter Syn|Hypo|Hyper goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, slime, sludge sapropel sludge (rich in organic matter) that accumulates at the bottom of lakes or oceans matter that which has mass and occupies space 4n the process of seeping Syn|Hypo|Hyper oozing, seepage exudation, transudation the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes flow, flowing the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) |
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