oozing

verbemit liquid

Synonyms for oozing

verb emit liquid

Antonyms for oozing

Word Origin & History

late 14c., wosen, verbal derivative of Old English noun wos "juice, sap," from Proto-Germanic *wosan (cf. Middle Low German wose "scum"), from same source as ooze (n.). Modern spelling from late 1500s. The Old English verb was wesan. Related: Oozed; oozing.

Example Sentences for oozing

His cheeks looked like two bladders from which the oil they contained was oozing out.

A bloody sweat, oozing from every pore, crimsoned his bed-clothes.

And that brought me back to his chin––back to that big, oozing cut.

At length we halted at a small spring oozing from the soil of the field.

The shot had struck him in the breast, and the life-blood was oozing away fast.

Blood was oozing between the fingers of the young Frenchman.

Sarah's courage, as may be seen, was oozing away with all Naomi's warnings.

Though it was moist with the drops that had been oozing over it, it had a burning heat.

They walked across the oozing road, and he accosted the man in the doorway.

He was shot in the left breast, and blood was oozing from his lips.

oozing

Synonyms for oozing

Antonyms for oozing

flow

flows

oozing

Synonyms for oozing

Antonyms for oozing

More words related to oozing

emanation

flow

flows