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seep

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English

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Etymology

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Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).

See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.

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Verb

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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.
  4. (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
    The crack is seeping water.
    • 2015, Crack repair service‎[1], archived from the original on 23 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!

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Noun

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seep (plural seeps)

 
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  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.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 356:
      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 cold seeps on the deep-sea floor near Costa Rica.

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Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch zeep.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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seep (plural sepe)

  1. soap

Descendants

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  • → Swazi: insipho
  • → Xhosa: isepha
  • → Zulu: insipho

Estonian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈseːp/, [ˈseːpˑ]
  • Rhymes: -eːp
  • Hyphenation: seep

Etymology 1

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From Middle Low German sêpe. First attested in 1632. Doublet of soop.

Noun

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seep (genitive seebi, partitive seepi)

  1. soap (substance)
  2. (chemistry, in the plural) soap salt (metallic salt derived from a fatty acid)
  3. (informal) soap opera, soap
Declension
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Declension of seep (ÕS type 22e/riik, p-b gradation)
singular plural
nominative seep seebid
accusative nom.
gen. seebi
genitive seepide
partitive seepi seepe
seepisid
illative seepi
seebisse 		seepidesse
seebesse
inessive seebis seepides
seebes
elative seebist seepidest
seebest
allative seebile seepidele
seebele
adessive seebil seepidel
seebel
ablative seebilt seepidelt
seebelt
translative seebiks seepideks
seebeks
terminative seebini seepideni
essive seebina seepidena
abessive seebita seepideta
comitative seebiga seepidega
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adjectives
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Compounds
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Etymology 2

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Omission of the apostrophe.

Pronoun

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seep

  1. Alternative spelling of see'p

References

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  • seep in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “seep”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Massachusett

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Noun

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seep

  1. river
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