seepage

seep | American Dictionary

seep
verb[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]
us/sip/
(of liquids) to flow slowly through something:
The flood water seeped into the basement.

seepage

noun[ U ]us/ˈsi·pɪdʒ/

Examples of seep

seep
Some prominent labor leaders were given material incentives to support the state machinery, and a general corruption of values seeped into the movement.
But the flavour of empire inevitably seeps through to both sides of the colonial divide.
This road became the main avenue through which state power seeped into the city space to reshape it.
However, a change is seeping in with technological applications.
Even so, there were limits to control and opposition seeped through the few cracks in this monolith.
The efflorescence is just a surface feature formed by evaporation of the water seeping out from the rock pores by capillarity.
During periods of high rainfall, the amount of water staying on the surface may be more than the amount that seeps into the ground.
Faced with such difficulties in explaining change, older explanatory frameworks have seeped into the vacuum left by the new focus on culture.
And the implications of these imperatives of the new corporate-administrative order would seep well beyond the targeted corporations themselves.
However, it has barely seeped into the collective consciousness of even the best educated youth - ask anyone faced with first-year university intakes for geology modules.
In all these ways, dollarisation is seeping inexorably from the export sector into the rest of the economy.
But this extraordinary vernacular somehow seeps into the mundane, becoming a type of "daily usage" as well.
In the limit, this suggests that all causation should "seep down" to the level of microphysics.
This ambivalence seeped into the park administration's consciousness.
A kind of naturalism is seeping though the formalistic writing, but the tug of older, more rigid conventions is still very much to be felt.
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