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Synonyms for ooze

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Synonyms for ooze

to flow or leak out or emit something slowly

a viscous, usually offensively dirty substance

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Synonyms for ooze

any thick, viscous matter

the process of seeping

pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

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OOZE FACTOR: The butter didn't reach the bottom so on the dry side SCORE: 3.5/5 Genius Gluten Free 4 Crumpets, Morrisons, PS1.70 A | | BIT of a scary yellow colour to begin with but cooked evenly to a more golden colour.
Named after the picturesque town in the Dordogne, they ooze French style.
Muddy Ooze was a wonderful place, except for one thing.
OOZE FACTOR: The butter didn't reach the bottom so on the dry side SCORE: 3.5/5 Genius Gluten Free 4 Crumpets, Morrisons, PS1.70 | A bit of a scary yellow colour to begin with but cooked evenly to a more golden colour.
One wrong step onto a weakened tube, and Edmonds could fall into the blistering-hot ooze. So to measure the streams' gases, she looks for skylights, or openings in lava tubes.
Isolated in a sea of white space were a few lines of text--sometimes just a single word--followed by numbers indicating pages: "Ooze, deep-sea, 305." Around these characters floated whatever abstract detritus the processes of copying and enlargement generated: black lines and dots, grids and smudges.
The dancers soon forsake the grid and ooze into variations of the cyborg's stilted gyrations, an eerie display of art imitating technology.
Experiments show that matchstick-size slivers of hydrogel, the type of material used for soft contact lenses, can ooze along like snails, slither like snakes, and creep ahead like inchworms.
While the object appeared to accommodate itself to the static walls of the white cube, at the same time it seemed about to ooze out, upsetting the observer's sense of space.
As seawater flooded the ship and oil started to ooze, its crew radioed a frantic SOS (see diagram, p.
A sample of mysterious ooze has shed new light on the use of biological weapons in 1993 by the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo.
We all begin to sink slowly into the ooze of someone else's bummer.
The fossil-bearing chalk deposits were laid down as ocean-floor ooze hundreds of kilometers from the waterways shores.
But they do know that gases dissolved in the magma, like carbon dioxide bubbles in a shaken soda bottle, help propel the pressurized ooze through cracks in Earth's crust.
Telltale symptoms of the disease include thin cracks in the bark that ooze sap and a startling pink shade to tissue just under the bark in fall, Hudler and his colleagues reported in Milwaukee this week at the annual meeting of the American Phytopathological Society.