SEEPING Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

seeping

verb

Definition of seeping next

present participle of seep

as in dripping

to flow forth slowly through small openings water seeping through the basement walls

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Recent Examples of seeping After easing them from the lab and onto the truck, the scientists transported the antimatter on a half-hour drive to test how — if at all — the infinitesimal particles could be transported by road without seeping out. —

ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026 Nicholson placed his father’s body in a small bathroom and used towels to block the bottom of the door to keep blood from seeping out, Porter said. —

City News Service, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026 But when the prosecutor in the suspect’s murder trial showed her a close-up photograph of herself that night a year ago, her hands covered in his blood seeping up the cuffs of her pink sweatshirt, her emotions poured out. —

Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2026 Those included issues with liquid hydrogen — a super-chilled propellant that is notorious for leaking — seeping out of the rocket at higher-than-acceptable rates during an initial fueling test. —

Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026 Essentially, these function as drains for your windows, keeping water from seeping into the wood of your window frame and causing rot. —

Molly Burford, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026 More than two thousand homes and businesses in Ontario were without natural gas for several days after a water main break led to water seeping into gas lines over the weekend. —

Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026 The science supports significant concern over the combination of salt water intrusion, sediment and seeping PFAS chemicals. —

Patrick Sisson, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2026 Ice walls were built to limit groundwater from seeping into the site. —

Yusuke Maekawa, Bloomberg, 8 Mar. 2026

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Finally, the riders entered a canopy of oaks dripping Spanish moss that marked the park entrance.

— Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026
With the games dripping out, one at a time, the entire planet is focused on a single match while it is being played, all the eyes of the world resting on twenty-two elite athletes acting out a sporting telenovela, living making decisions without a script, under conditions of hysterical pressure.

— Jeffrey Pierre, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026