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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seep \Seep\, or Sipe \Sipe\, v. i. [AS. s[imac]pan to distill.]
     To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
     [Scot. & U. S.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Water seeps up through the sidewalks.    --G. W. Cable.


     [1913 Webster] Seepage

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seep
       v : pass gradually or leak through or as if through small
           openings [syn: {ooze}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "seep":
     bleed, condense, discharge, distill, dribble, drip, dripple, drop,
     effuse, emit, excrete, exfiltrate, extravasate, exudate, exude,
     filter, filtrate, flow, give off, gurgle, leach, leak, lixiviate,
     ooze, percolate, reek, sew, spurtle, strain, sweat, transpire,
     transude, trickle, weep
  
  

















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