OOZE THROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ooze through mean? 

• OOZE THROUGH (verb)
  The verb OOZE THROUGH has 1 sense:

1. run slowly and gradually

  Familiarity information: OOZE THROUGH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OOZE THROUGH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run slowly and gradually

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

Blood oozed through the bandage

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