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OOZE THROUGH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run slowly and gradually

Example:

Blood oozed through the bandage

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "ooze through" is one way to...):

penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ooze through"):

soak through; sop (be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

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