seep
seep
- v pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
- To get bumper crops, farmers depend on pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers, which can seep below the surface and contaminate the groundwater.
- Handler believes that a slow leakage of radioactive materials over many years will seep into the seabed and gradually dissipate, whereas a salvage operation could result in a more .
- After Grandma sold her house to pay some gambling debts, Lum was brought up in a wooden shack without running waterunless you counted the rainwater that would regularly seep in .