Definition of "ooze" []

• To flow or leak out slowly, as through small openings. (verb-intransitive)
• To disappear or ebb slowly: His courage oozed away. (verb-intransitive)
• To progress slowly but steadily: "Over grass bleached colorless by strong outback sun, the herd oozes forward” ( Geraldine Brooks). (verb-intransitive)
• To exude moisture. (verb-intransitive)
• To emit a particular essence or quality: The house oozed with charm. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The danger, as sleazy stories ooze from the depths of the Web, is that traditional news outlets will find themselves spreading unsubstantiated garbage."
• "The power went out in our apartment, making a cold puddle of water ooze from the fridge, and because it couldn't be fixed, we were moved to another, almost identical apartment."
• "When given the green light, I would pull the boat into the lock, place her along the cement sidewall (a feat with a boat that acts like a bath toy because it has no keel), and grab hold of a weighted line that ran down the side of the lock — slick with ooze from the canal water and sometimes covered with zebra mussels, the scourge of the Great Lakes."