ooze through

1. 1.

   run slowly and gradually

   “Blood oozed through the bandage”

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Questions about ooze through

What does ooze through mean?

ooze through means "run slowly and gradually".

Is ooze through a common word?

ooze through is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.