MEANING
1. To move slowly through small openings or porous material.
2. A place where water or another fluid slowly emerges from the ground.
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Words that belong together
- water seeps
- seep through a wall
- seep into soil
On the page
Water seeped through the wall.
Moisture seeped into the floorboards.
The news seeped through the isolated community.
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Word forms
- Base
- seep
- Past tense
- seeped
- Past participle
- seeped
- Present participle
- seeping
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- seep
- Present continuous
- am/is/are seeping
- Present perfect
- have/has seeped
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been seeping
- Past
- seeped
- Past continuous
- was/were seeping
- Past perfect
- had seeped
- Past perfect continuous
- had been seeping
- Future
- will seep
- Future continuous
- will be seeping
- Future perfect
- will have seeped
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been seeping
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: seep; seeps; seeped; seeped; seeping Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: seeps.
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