OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 18427

ooze

/uːz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
exudar • rezumar • rezumarse • trazumar • trazumarse
To be secreted or slowly leak.
I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.
She picked up the limp sprout and squeezed her thumb up its tiny stalk. Microscopic grains oozed out. “Why, one sprig of nut grass can ruin a whole yard. Look here. When it comes f…
rezumar • secretar • segregar
To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
"Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.
[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.