ooze

The word “ooze” has 1 syllable: ooze

It's pronounced as /uːz/


What is synonym and antonym for ooze?

In the thesaurus, “ooze” has 68 synonyms and 18 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for ooze along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for ooze

  • alluvium
  • bleed
  • clay
  • crawl
  • creep
  • dirt
  • discharge
  • drag
  • drain
  • dribble
  • drip
  • drop
  • emanate
  • emit
  • escape
  • exude
  • filter
  • flow
  • fluid
  • give off
  • glop
  • goo
  • gook
  • gravel
  • guck
  • gumbo
  • gunk
  • humus
  • inch
  • issue
  • leach
  • leak
  • limp
  • loam
  • lumber
  • mire
  • muck
  • mud
  • nose
  • overflow
  • percolate
  • perspire
  • plod
  • poke
  • sand
  • seep
  • shamble
  • shuffle
  • silt
  • slime
  • slop
  • slouch
  • sludge
  • slush
  • snail
  • soil
  • spring
  • spurt
  • strain
  • sweat
  • swelter
  • tramp
  • transude
  • trickle
  • trudge
  • vent
  • weep
  • well

Antonyms for ooze

  • float
  • flood
  • fly
  • glide
  • gush
  • hold
  • hurry
  • keep
  • pour
  • race
  • sail
  • speed
  • stream
  • surge
  • tear
  • whiz
  • whizz
  • zip

Meanings of ooze

  • noun
    1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
    2. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
    3. Secretion, humour.
    4. Juice, sap.
    5. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
    6. A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
    7. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.
  • verb
    1. To be secreted or slowly leak.
    2. To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

Example Sentences

  • The slime began to ooze out of the container.
  • His wounds continued to ooze blood slowly.
  • She seems to ooze confidence wherever she goes.
  • The sandwich started to ooze melted cheese.
  • That horror movie monster would ooze green goo from its body.

On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ooze, such as: alluvium, bleed, clay, crawl, creep, dirt, discharge.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

radiate

  • afford
  • arise
  • beam
  • bedazzle
  • blaze
  • blind
  • blink
  • branch
  • branch out
  • brighten
  • broadcast
  • burn
  • cast
  • circulate
  • coruscate
  • daze
  • dazzle
  • derive
  • diffuse
  • discharge
  • dispel
  • disperse
  • disseminate
  • dissipate
  • distribute
  • diverge
  • divide
  • eject
  • eliminate
  • emanate
  • emit
  • erupt
  • evacuate
  • evolve
  • excrete
  • exhale
  • expand
  • expel
  • expire
  • exude
  • fire
  • flame
  • flare
  • flash
  • flicker
  • flow
  • fork
  • give out
  • glare
  • gleam
  • glimmer
  • glint
  • glisten
  • glister
  • glitter
  • glow
  • gush
  • illuminate
  • illumine
  • irradiate
  • issue
  • jet
  • light
  • light up
  • lighten
  • luminesce
  • luster
  • lustre
  • ooze
  • outpour
  • part
  • pour
  • proceed
  • proliferate
  • propagate
  • ramble
  • ramify
  • ray
  • release
  • scatter
  • scintillate
  • secrete
  • send out
  • separate
  • shed
  • sheen
  • shimmer
  • shine
  • shoot
  • shoot out
  • spangle
  • sparkle
  • spew
  • splay
  • split
  • spout
  • spray
  • spread
  • spread out
  • spring
  • sprinkle
  • spurt
  • squirt
  • stem
  • strew
  • throw out
  • transmit
  • twinkle
  • uncouple
  • unlink
  • unyoke
  • vent
  • wink
  • winkle
  • yield

salivate

  • dribble
  • drivel
  • drool
  • expectorate
  • foam
  • froth
  • ooze
  • run
  • slabber
  • slaver
  • slobber
  • spit
  • splutter
  • sputter
  • water
  • water at the mouth

salivates

  • dribble
  • dribbles
  • drivel
  • drivels
  • drools
  • expectorates
  • foams
  • froth
  • froths
  • ooze
  • run
  • slabber
  • slaver
  • slavers
  • slobber
  • slobbers
  • spit
  • spits
  • splutters
  • sputters
  • water
  • water at the mouth
  • waters

salivating

  • dribble
  • dribbling
  • drivel
  • driveling
  • drivelling
  • drooling
  • expectorating
  • foaming
  • froth
  • frothing
  • ooze
  • run
  • slabber
  • slaver
  • slavering
  • slobber
  • slobbering
  • spit
  • spitting
  • spluttering
  • sputtering
  • water
  • water at the mouth
  • watering

yuck

  • ah
  • alack
  • alas
  • amusement
  • bah
  • boo
  • cachinnation
  • cackle
  • chortle
  • chortling
  • chuckle
  • chuckling
  • crow
  • crowing
  • crud
  • faugh
  • fie
  • fit
  • giggle
  • giggling
  • glee
  • glop
  • gook
  • guck
  • guffaw
  • guffawing
  • gunk
  • har-de-har
  • hilarity
  • howling
  • humph
  • laugh
  • laughter
  • merriment
  • mirth
  • muck
  • ooze
  • peal
  • phew
  • phooey
  • pish
  • pooh
  • pshaw
  • rats
  • rejoicing
  • roar
  • roaring
  • sheesh
  • shout
  • shriek
  • sludge
  • slush
  • snicker
  • snigger
  • snort
  • snorting
  • tee-hee
  • titter
  • tittering
  • tush
  • tut
  • tut-tut
  • ugh
  • woe
  • yecch
  • yech

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