Usually means: Exude fluid slowly; thick liquid.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ooze: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ooze: Merriam-Webster
  3. ooze, ooze: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ooze, ooze: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ooze: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ooze: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ooze, ooze: Wordnik
  8. ooze: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ooze: Wiktionary
  10. ooze: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ooze: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ooze: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ooze, ooze: Dictionary.com
  14. ooze (n.), ooze (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ooze: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ooze (Dungeons & Dragons), Ooze, The Ooze: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ooze: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ooze: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ooze: Rhymezone
  20. ooze: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ooze: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ooze: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ooze: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ooze: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. OOZE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ooze: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. ooze: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. OOZE: Acronym Finder
  2. ooze: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ooze: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ooze: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
noun:  An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
noun:  (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
noun:  (obsolete) Juice, sap.
verb:  (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To be secreted or slowly leak.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
noun:  Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
noun:  (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
noun:  A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

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