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Word entry · 4 letters

seep

Best crossword clue

"Leak slowly"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /siːp/Part of speech verbSorted eepsStarts with SEnds with P1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

Word origin

Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).

Used in a sentence

  • “Water has seeped through the roof.”
  • “The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.”
  • “Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.”

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