0 present participle of seep
1 to move or spread slowly out of a hole or through something:
Pesticides are seeping out of farmland and into the water supply.
figurative Given the intense secrecy of the arms business, information only seeps out in company literature.
Horizontal bedding strata are crazed with minute shear fractures then stained by seeping iron oxide in solution.
However, a change is seeping in with technological applications.
The efflorescence is just a surface feature formed by evaporation of the water seeping out from the rock pores by capillarity.
In all these ways, dollarisation is seeping inexorably from the export sector into the rest of the economy.
A kind of naturalism is seeping though the formalistic writing, but the tug of older, more rigid conventions is still very much to be felt.
The use of linear seeping ditches of about 40cm depth and 300cm width (swales) will establish drainage conditions similar to existing ones.
Diesel fuel was observed seeping from the tundra during the spring thaw.
My celtic background is obviously seeping into my buttresses.
