oozed
past simple and past participle ofooze
ooze
verb[I+ adv/prep,T]
uk/uːz/us/uːz/toflowslowlyout of something through asmallopening, or toslowlyproduceathickstickyliquid:
Blood was still oozingout ofthewound.
Sheremovedthebandagetorevealaredswollenwoundoozingpus.
Thewaiterbroughther amassivepizzaoozing (with)cheese.
figurativeHe oozes(= has a lot of)charm/confidence.
Synonym
seep
Movement of liquids
- backsplash
- be dripping withsomethingidiom
- bleed
- decant
- discharge
- drainage
- drip
- eddy
- leak
- runsomeone/somethingover
- runnel
- seep
- seepage
- slosh
- spit
- topsomethingup
- trickle
- tub
- washsomethingaway
- waterborne
Examplesofoozed
oozed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Television hasoozedthe good life at us, but what it portrays on the screen is not happening now in the balance sheets.
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Itoozedwith complacency and was wrong in tone and content.
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Moralsoozedout of every word he said.
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Confidence hasoozedaway and small businesses face an ever worsening prospect.
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They have positivelyoozedcompassion and high-minded rhetoric, and they have scattered caring soundbites through every speech like golden hailstones, but we have not heard what they would do.
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This may mean that itoozedout the top, or perhaps that water came from holes in its side.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Without leaves the stems may sometimes be identified by occasional black marks where its milky sap may haveoozedand dried.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The king then noticed a blood like fluidoozedout from that rock.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is believed to be the treatment for the blood thatoozedout of the deity because of the king's attack.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While attacking a predator, haemolymphoozedout and caused the aphids to stick to predator.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It was the first gum that had a liquid center thatoozedout when chewed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.About one billion years ago, molten rock called diabaseoozedup through cracks in the earth's crust.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Acres was a coward, whose courage alwaysoozedout at his finger ends.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Near its southern unit, lavaoozedinto cracks in the glacial ice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It againoozeda desirable bike among its consumers.
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- quality audit
- quality-audit
- radical idea
- radical innovation
- radicalism
- radicalization
- radicalize
- radicalized
- radically
- radical movement
- radical party
- radical proposal
- radical reconstruction
- radical reduction
- radical reform
- radical revision
- radical solution
- radical surgery
- radical transformation
- radical view
- radicchio
- radices
- radii
- radio
- radioactive