seep
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Etymology
Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).
See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.
Pronunciation
Verb
seep (third-person singular simple present seeps, present participle seeping, simple past and past participle seeped)
- (intransitive) 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.
- (intransitive, figurative) 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.
- (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.
- The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.
- (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
- The crack is seeping water.
- 2015, Crack repair service, archived from the original on 23 February 2020:
- If the crack is seeping water, the foam totally stops the leakage.
Synonyms
Translations
to ooze through pores
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Noun
seep (plural seeps)
- 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.
- Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
- The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
- A seafloor vent.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 356:
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
a place where water seeps out of the ground
a seepage
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
seep (plural sepe)
Descendants
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German sêpe. First attested in 1632. Doublet of soop.
Noun
seep (genitive seebi, partitive seepi)
- soap (substance)
- (chemistry, in the plural) soap salt (metallic salt derived from a fatty acid)
- (informal) soap opera, soap
Declension
| Declension of seep (ÕS type 22e/riik, p-b gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | seep | seebid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | seebi | ||
| genitive | seepide | ||
| partitive | seepi | seepe seepisid | |
| illative | seepi seebisse |
seepidesse seebesse | |
| inessive | seebis | seepides seebes | |
| elative | seebist | seepidest seebest | |
| allative | seebile | seepidele seebele | |
| adessive | seebil | seepidel seebel | |
| ablative | seebilt | seepidelt seebelt | |
| translative | seebiks | seepideks seebeks | |
| terminative | seebini | seepideni | |
| essive | seebina | seepidena | |
| abessive | seebita | seepideta | |
| comitative | seebiga | seepidega | |
Derived terms
adjectives
- seebikas
- seebine
phrases and phrasal verbs
- seebiks keetma
- seebiks minema
verbs
- seebistama
- seebistuma
- seebitama
Compounds
- glütseriinseep
- habemeajamisseep
- ihtüoolseep
- kaaliumseep
- kaltsiumseep
- karbolseep
- lanoliinseep
- lasteseep
- lavendliseep
- liimseep
- lõhnaseep
- majapidamisseep
- mandliseep
- naatriumseep
- palmiõliseep
- parfüümseep
- pesuseep
- saunaseep
- silmapesuseep
- silmaseep
- teleseep
- tualettseep
- tõrvaseep
- tükiseep
- tükkseep
- vaseliinseep
- vedelseep
- WC-seep
- õliseep
- seebialus
- seebihelves
- seebikang
- seebikarp
- seebikeet
- seebikeetja
- seebikeetmine
- seebikild
- seebikivi
- seebilaast
- seebilahus
- seebilill
- seebilõik
- seebimull
- seebiooper
- seebipiiritus
- seebipuu
- seebipära
- seebisaast
- seebisoop
- seebitoos
- seebitükk
- seebivabrik
- seebivaht
- seebivesi
- seepheinik
Etymology 2
Omission of the apostrophe.
Pronoun
seep
- Alternative spelling of see'p
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Noun
seep
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