seepverb/siːp/

• 1

  To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.

  • Water has seeped through the roof.
  • The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.
• 2

  To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.

  • Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.
  • Fear began to seep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.
• 3

  To diminish or wane away slowly.

  • The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.
• 4

  (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.

  • The crack is seeping water.
  • If the crack is seeping water, the foam totally stops the leakage.
• 5

  To soak.

  • wi' the weet / We're seepit to the skin
  • a young lad's mind, whilk had seeped in, for many a day, the rain of adversity

seepnoun/siːp/

• 1

  A 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.

• 2

  Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.

• 3

  The seeping away of a liquid, etc.

• 4

  A seafloor vent.

  • Another idea was that filamentous bacteria covering the hairs [of the Yeti crab] would either neutralize gases emitted from the vent or serve the crab directly as a food source. And this last idea received support when a second species of Yeti crab was discovered on cold seeps on the deep-sea floor near Costa Rica.