0 to move or spread slowly out of a hole or through something: --
figurative Given the intense secrecy of the arms business, information only seeps out in company literature.
Pesticides are seeping out of farmland and into the water supply.
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.
This ambivalence seeped into the park administration's consciousness.
In the limit, this suggests that all causation should "seep down" to the level of microphysics.
But this extraordinary vernacular somehow seeps into the mundane, becoming a type of "daily usage" as well.
In all these ways, dollarisation is seeping inexorably from the export sector into the rest of the economy.
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.
And the implications of these imperatives of the new corporate-administrative order would seep well beyond the targeted corporations themselves.
Faced with such difficulties in explaining change, older explanatory frameworks have seeped into the vacuum left by the new focus on culture.
