Definitions for seep

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IPA: /sip/

Seep is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in seep (eeps).

Definitions for seep

noun

1. moisture that seeps out; seepage.
2. a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground has oozed to the surface of the earth.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to seep; filter:

verb (used without object)

1. to pass, flow, or ooze gradually through a porous substance:
2. (of ideas, methods, etc.) to enter or be introduced at a slow pace:
3. to become diffused; permeate:

Origin of seep

1780-90; perhaps variant of dial. sipe, itself perhaps continuing Old English sīpian (cognate with Middle Low German sīpen)

Examples for seep

In other words, take a minute to really be conscious of the emotion, instead of just letting it seep in.

The tension seemed to seep out of the room as tangible as a stream of water.

Freedom will seep into the bedrock as we rediscover our backbone.

Petraeus allowed no daylight to seep in between himself and the president.

All that needed to be added was time: time for the past to seep into future memory and take root there.

And it takes time for world events to seep into the culture.

A growing realization and horror began to seep through Mel's mind.

There were no sounds but the seep of sand, the moan of wind, the mourn of wolf.

The fourth night from the river we camped at a small "seep" spring.

Strange stories of Bob's doings began to seep into my office.