0 past simple and past 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.
Some prominent labor leaders were given material incentives to support the state machinery, and a general corruption of values seeped into the movement.
This road became the main avenue through which state power seeped into the city space to reshape it.
Even so, there were limits to control and opposition seeped through the few cracks in this monolith.
Faced with such difficulties in explaining change, older explanatory frameworks have seeped into the vacuum left by the new focus on culture.
However, it has barely seeped into the collective consciousness of even the best educated youth - ask anyone faced with first-year university intakes for geology modules.
Despite official complacency, disquiet about the ' methods of barbarism ' employed in the 1950s as in the 1900s seeped into metropolitan debate.
This ambivalence seeped into the park administration's consciousness.
Special care was taken to ensure that no water from the bath seeped into the dish during thawing.
