| 单词 | seep |
| 释义 | seep (once / 4827 pages) v Seep means to leak slowly. When you see the word, imagine water coming in through your sneakers on a rainy day. It's not a lot of water, but your feet still get pretty wet. The word seep is related to the Dutch word for ooze. Oil seeps from the earth and blood seeps from a wound. Seep falls somewhere between gush and drip on a scale of how liquid flows and suggests a liquid that is thick, and unwanted. In the figurative sense, some things that seep, like bad thoughts that seep into your mind, are also unwanted. But sometimes you wish that the flow would increase like when financial aid only seeps into a disaster zone. WORD FAMILYseep: seepage, seeped, seeping, seeps+/seepage: seepages USAGE EXAMPLESEmotion would seep through later, triggered by a news alert, a mindless cleaning task, a photograph. Los Angeles Times(Dec 18, 2016) Is it the global doom seeping into fiction, or just a coincidence? The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) Seawater, but not marine organisms, would seep through the sand, supplying a main pipe connected to the desalination complex. Los Angeles Times(Dec 16, 2016) v pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings Syn|Hyper ooze course, feed, flow, run move along, of liquids |
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