Difference between Ooze and Seep

What is the difference between Ooze and Seep?

Ooze as a verb is to secrete or slowly leak. while Seep as a verb is to ooze, or pass slowly through pores or other small openings

Ooze

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To secrete or slowly leak. To give off a sense of (something).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning. Secretion, humour. A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck. Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water. Piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.

Seep

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a place where water, petroleum or tar seeps out of the grounda seepage

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to ooze, or pass slowly through pores or other small openings

We hope you now know whether to use Ooze or Seep in your sentence.

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