0 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.
Some prominent labor leaders were given material incentives to support the state machinery, and a general corruption of values seeped into the movement.
But the flavour of empire inevitably seeps through to both sides of the colonial divide.
This road became the main avenue through which state power seeped into the city space to reshape it.
However, a change is seeping in with technological applications.
Even so, there were limits to control and opposition seeped through the few cracks in this monolith.
The efflorescence is just a surface feature formed by evaporation of the water seeping out from the rock pores by capillarity.
During periods of high rainfall, the amount of water staying on the surface may be more than the amount that seeps into the ground.
Faced with such difficulties in explaining change, older explanatory frameworks have seeped into the vacuum left by the new focus on culture.
