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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
1S2E3E4P

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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