oozing

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  1. That which oozes; ooze. Keats.
  2. A slow spring. It may be noted that, while the oil-deposits of America and Russia are several hundred miles inland, those of New Zealand are actually on the coast; so close, indeed, that the beach at New Plymouth is pitted with petroleum oozings. Science, XIV. 228.

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  • Formaldehyde3. Corrosive acids causing pus-oozing sores4.
  • Although the wound was still oozing, the bleeding appeared to be slowing. —  YoursUntilDawn
  • Talent can be eternally nurtured and is ever oozing, but when it is exercised in the daily course of life it looses its unique creative touch and becomes boring. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • That's a nice illustration of the oozing, limitless deceit that characterizes the people who governed the country for the last eight years. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • When I was writing my burger book I met a guy named Bob Giattani who sold something somewhat similar, the New England Cheeseburger Chest, which turned a hunk of cheese into a blob of oozing orange goo. —  Diner's Journal
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