seep
English
Pronunciation
Etymology
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
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
a place where water seeps out of the ground
a seepage
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- Hungarian: szivárgás
Verb
seep (third-person singular simple present seeps, present participle seeping, simple past and past participle seeped)
Synonyms
See also
Translations
to ooze through pores
Anagrams
Estonian
Etymology
From German Seife
Noun
seep (genitive seebi, partitive seepi)
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 |