seep

Plural: seeps

Verb

Verb Forms: seeped, seeping, seeps

To pass slowly through small openings or pores.
pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
To diminish or wane away slowly.
(of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.

Noun

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.

Examples

Fear began to seep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.
The crack is seeping water.
The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.
The tension began to seep into the Words With Friends game as scores tightened.
The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.
Water has seeped through the roof.
Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

ooze, leak

Scrabble Score: 6

seep: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
seep: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
seep: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

seep: valid Words With Friends Word