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Ooze

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

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Course 76% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Egest 76% connected

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin,…

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Excrete 76% connected

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

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Feed 76% connected

of Fee

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Flow 76% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Flowing 76% connected

of Flow

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Matter 76% connected

That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of concep…

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Manner of action 11

Distil 76% connected

See Distill.

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Distill 76% connected

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.

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Extravasate 76% connected

To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.

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Froth 76% connected

The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

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Fume 76% connected

Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.

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Gum 76% connected

The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

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Reek 76% connected

A rick.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Secrete 76% connected

To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.

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Stream 76% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Transpire 76% connected

To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.

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Narrower term 2

Exudation 76% connected

The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded.

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Transudation 76% connected

The act or process of transuding.

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Derivationally related 8

Oozing 74% connected

of Ooze

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Oozing 74% connected

of Ooze

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Seep 74% connected

Alt. of Sipe

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Seep 74% connected

Alt. of Sipe

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Transudation 74% connected

The act or process of transuding.

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Transudation 74% connected

The act or process of transuding.

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Transude 74% connected

To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

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Transude 74% connected

To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

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Synonym 9

Exudate 92% connected

To exude.

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Exude 92% connected

To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Muck 92% connected

abbreviation of Amuck.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Oozing 92% connected

of Ooze

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Seep 92% connected

Alt. of Sipe

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Seepage 92% connected

Alt. of Sipage

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Slime 92% connected

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sludge 92% connected

Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Transude 92% connected

To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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