noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET:S IY1 P IH0 JH
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
The process by which something, especially a liquid, leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping. (Also used figuratively: the process of diffusing.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
Water that has seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
the process of seeping
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ooze, oozing
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flow, flowing
Narrower terms: exudation, transudation
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English seep Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English seepage From seep + -age.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian:
просмукване
(prosmukvane)
— process
Czech:
průsak
— process
Finnish:
tihkuminen
— process
Galician:
filtración
— process
German:
Versickerung
— process
German:
Einsickerung
— process
Hebrew:
הסתננות
(histanenút)
— process
Hungarian:
szivárgás
— process
Māori:
papītanga
— process
Polish:
wyciek
— process
Portuguese:
infiltração
— process
Russian:
проса́чивание
(prosáčivanije)
— process
Russian:
инфильтра́ция
(infilʹtrácija)
— process
Spanish:
filtración
— process
Spanish:
penetración
— process
Spanish:
exudación
— process
Ukrainian:
просо́чування
(prosóčuvannja)
— process