Meaning

5 senses
  1. (intransitive)To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.

    Water has seeped through the roof.

    The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.

    durchsickern

    сочи́тьсяsočítʹsja, проса́чиватьсяprosáčivatʹsja, просочи́тьсяprosočítʹsja

    просочуватисяprosočuvatysja, протікатиprotikaty

    pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

  2. (figuratively, intransitive)To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.

    Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.

    Fear began to seep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.

  3. (figuratively, intransitive)To diminish or wane away slowly.

    The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.

  4. (transitive)(of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.

    The crack is seeping water.

  5. (Scotland)To soak.

Examples

21 sentences
  1. If your windows are not airtight, moisture will seep in.

    ruЕсли твои окна не герметичные, влага будет просачиваться внутрь. — odexed

  2. The cold seeped into her bones.

    ruХолод пронизал её до костей. — odexed

  3. The water seeped into the walls.

    deDas Wasser drang in die Mauern ein. — brauchinet

  4. Light is seeping through the curtains.

    ruСквозь шторы просачивается свет. — sharptoothed

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  5. Water is seeping into my rubber boots.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to ooze through pores:
Русский
By meaning 1
to ooze through pores:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to ooze through pores:

Origin

Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic

Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).

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Forms

seeps, seeping, seeped, seeped
Base formseep · to seep
3rd person singularseeps
Present participleseeping
Past simpleseeped
Past participleseeped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyseep
he, she, itseeps

Past simpleLesson

all personsseeped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave seeped
he, she, ithas seeped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill seep

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings:ooze

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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