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ooze

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of ooze

soft wet earth

  • our car tires sank deep in the ooze
Synonyms of ooze

guck (or gook), mire, muck, mud, slime, slop, sludge, slush
Words Related to ooze

gumbo, silt

clay, dirt, gravel, humus, loam, sand, soil

ooze

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of ooze

1 to flow forth slowly through small openings

  • maple sap oozed slowly from the cut in the tree and into the bucket
Synonyms of ooze

bleed, exude, percolate, seep, strain, sweat, transude, weep
Words Related to ooze

dribble, drip, trickle

discharge, emit, give off, vent

emanate, flow, spring
Near Antonyms of ooze

flood, gush, pour, stream, surge

2 to move slowly

  • the line more or less oozes past the body lying in state, as mourners are not allowed to pause
Synonyms of ooze

crawl, creak (along), creep, drag, inch, limp, nose, plod, poke, slouch, snail
Words Related to ooze

lumber, shamble, shuffle, tramp, trudge
Near Antonyms of ooze

float, glide, sail

hurry, tear
Antonyms of ooze

fly, race, speed, whiz (or whizz), zip

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