ooze

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1. transude, flow or flow out, exude, bleed, seep, filter, filtrate, leach, percolate; escape, leak, drain, strain, trickle, drizzle, dribble, drip, drop, weep.
2. sweat, perspire, secrete, discharge; send out, give off, emit, transpire, send forth; emanate, come from, issue, well out or forth; pour out or forth, effuse, disseminate, shed, release, loose or let loose.
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3. transudation, exudation, exudate, secretion, discharge, sweat, perspiration.
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1. mud, clay, muck, mire, sludge, silt, sediment, alluvium, deposit; slime, Inf. glop, Inf. gunk, Sl. guck, Inf. goo, Sl. goop; slush, slosh, mush, squash, mess, slop, swill, Irish. slob.
2. marsh, bog, morass, swamp, wash, Brit. fen, quagmire; qucksand, wallow, slough, Brit. sough, Brit. Dial. sump.

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