seep
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of sipe, from Middle English sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sīpōnan, frequentative of *sīpanan (compare Middle Dutch sīpen 'to drip', archaic German seifen 'to trickle blood'), from Proto-Indo-European *seib, *sib- 'to pour out, drip, trickle' (compare Latin sēbum 'suet, tallow', Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō) 'to drop, drip').
Noun[edit]
seep (plural seeps)
- a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface
- moisture that seeps out; a seepage
Translations[edit]
a place where water seeps out of the ground
a seepage
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- Hungarian: szivárgás
Verb[edit]
seep (third-person singular simple present seeps, present participle seeping, simple past and past participle seeped)
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Translations[edit]
to ooze through pores
Anagrams[edit]
Estonian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From German Seife
Noun[edit]
seep (genitive seebi, partitive seepi)
Declension[edit]
Declension of seep (type paks)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | seep | seebid |
| genitive | seebi | seepide |
| partitive | seepi | seepe seepisid |
| illative | seepi seebisse |
seepidesse |
| inessive | seebis | seepides |
| elative | seebist | seepidest |
| allative | seebile | seepidele |
| adessive | seebil | seepidel |
| ablative | seebilt | seepidelt |
| translative | seebiks | seepideks |
| terminative | seebini | seepideni |
| essive | seebina | seepidena |
| abessive | seebita | seepideta |
| comitative | seebiga | seepidega |
