Variant ofsipe Middle English *sipen Old English sipian Proto-Germanic *sipōną *sīpaną Proto-Indo-European *seyb- *sib- ( “ to pour out, drip, trickle ” ) .
See alsoMiddle Dutch sīpen ( “ to drip ” ) ,German Low German siepern ( “ to seep ” ) , archaicGerman seifen ( “ to trickle blood ” ) ; alsoLatin sēbum ( “ suet, tallow ” ) ,Ancient Greek εἴβω ( eíbō ,“ to drop, drip ” ) ). Seesoap
seep (third-person singular simple present seeps present participle seeping simple past and past participle seeped
( intransitive ) ooze orpass slowly throughpores or other smallopenings , and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.Water hasseeped through the roof.
The water steadilyseeped in through the thirl.
( intransitive , figurative ) enter orpenetrate slowly; tospread ordiffuse .Woeseeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.
Fear began toseep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.
( intransitive , figurative ) diminish orwane away slowly.The resistance movement against the invaders had slowlyseeped away.
( transitive ) The crack is seeping water.
2015 Crack repair service [1] the original on23 February 2020 :If the crack is seeping water, the foam totally stops the leakage.
2009 April 16,Crownvic forums [2] Just when I thought I was done checking it over, I smelled coolant....remove the engine cover and bam! 1 inch crack is seeping coolant!
to ooze through pores
Bulgarian:просмуквам се ( prosmukvam se ) Burmese:စိမ့် (my) ( cim. ) Chinese:Mandarin:渗出 (zh) ( shènchū ) Czech:prosakovat impf pronikat (cs) impf Finnish:tihkua (fi) ,vuotaa (fi) French:suinter (fr) ,s’exfiltrer Galician:zumegar rever (gl) German:durchsickern (de) Italian:infiltrarsi (it) ,trasudare (it) ,penetrare (it) Japanese:にじみ出る (ja) ( nijimideru ) Lithuanian:sunktis skverbtis 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) Ukrainian:просочуватися ( prosočuvatysja ) ,протікати ( protikaty )
seep (plural seeps
A smallspring ,pool , or other spot where liquid from theground (e.g.water ,petroleum ortar ) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping. Moisture ,liquid ,gas , etc. that seeps out; aseepage .The seeping away of a liquid, etc. A seafloorvent .2012 The Book of Barely Imagined Beings , page356 :Another idea was that filamentous bacteria covering the hairs [of the Yeti crab] would either neutralize gases emitted from the vent or serve the crab directly as a food source. And this last idea received support when a second species of Yeti crab was discovered on coldseeps on the deep-sea floor near Costa Rica.
a place where water seeps out of the ground
Translations to be checked
FromDutch zeep
seep (plural sepe
soap IPA (key ) : /ˈseːp/ ,[ˈseːpˑ] Rhymes:-eːp Hyphenation:seep FromMiddle Low German sêpe Doublet ofsoop
seep (genitive seebi partitive seepi
soap ( substance ) ( chemistry , in theplural ) soap salt ( metallicsalt derived from afatty acid ) ( informal ) soap opera ,soap phrases and phrasal verbs
Omission of the apostrophe.
seep
Alternative spelling ofsee'p seep inSõnaveeb “seep [ EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamatDescriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language 2009 seep
river 
