seep

See also: Seep

English

Etymology

Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną (compare Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”)), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”) (compare Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”). See soap.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sēp, IPA^(key): /siːp/
• Rhymes: -iːp

Verb

seep (third-person singular simple present seeps, present participle seeping, simple past and past participle seeped)

1. (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.

   Water has seeped through the roof.

   The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.

2. (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.

   Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.

   Fear began to seep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.

3. (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.

   The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.

Synonyms

• leak

Noun

seep (plural seeps)

1. 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.
2. Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
3. The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
4. A seafloor vent.

Translations

a place where water seeps out of the ground

• Italian: sorgente (it)
• Japanese: にじみ (nijimi)
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• Portuguese: jazida (pt) f
• Spanish: fuente (es) f, emanación f

a seepage

• Italian: infiltrazione f
• Japanese: にじみ (nijimi)
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• Portuguese: infiltração (pt) f
• Spanish: filtración

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Translations to be checked

• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} szivárgás
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Translations

to ooze through pores

• Burmese: စိမ့် (my) (cim.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 渗出 (zh) (shènchū)

• Finnish: tihkua, vuotaa (fi)
• French: s’infiltrer (fr) suinter (fr)
• German: durchsickern (de)
• Italian: infiltrarsi (it), trasudare (it), penetrare (it)
• Japanese: にじみ出る (nijimideru)
• Lithuanian: sunktis, skverbtis
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• Manx: sheel
• Maori: papī, pahī
• Portuguese: escoar (pt)
• Russian: сочи́ться (ru) pf (sočítʹsja), проса́чиваться (ru) impf (prosáčivatʹsja), просочи́ться (ru) pf (prosočítʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian: curiti (sh), cijediti se
• Spanish: filtrar (es), rezumar (es)
• Swedish: sippra (sv)

See also

• sip
• siphon

Anagrams

• Sepe, eeps, pees

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zeep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪəp/

Noun

seep (plural sepe)

1. soap

Descendants

• → Xhosa: isepha
• → Zulu: insipho

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Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German sêpe.

Noun

seep (genitive seebi, partitive seepi)

1. soap

Declension

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

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Massachusett

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːp/

Noun

seep

1. river