seep
A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground has oozed to the surfaceA small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
» If your windows are not airtight, moisture will seep in.
Если твои окна не герметичные, влага будет просачиваться внутрь. — odexed
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4 sensesA small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
A seafloor vent.
Examples
21 sentencesIf your windows are not airtight, moisture will seep in.
ruЕсли твои окна не герметичные, влага будет просачиваться внутрь. — odexed
The cold seeped into her bones.
ruХолод пронизал её до костей. — odexed
The water seeped into the walls.
deDas Wasser drang in die Mauern ein. — brauchinet
Light is seeping through the curtains.
ruСквозь шторы просачивается свет. — sharptoothed
Water is seeping into my rubber boots.
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-GermanicVariant 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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