seep
The tunnel had constant problems of water seepage.
Its primary objective was preventing further leaks and seepages.
Seepage problems intensified as the production increased.
They have lined their canals with concrete and seepage is kept to a minimum.
The seepage was traced to a faulty valve in the airflow system.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Movement of liquids
backsplash
be dripping with somethingidiom
brim
brim over
brim with something
drip
funnel
leakage
pour
pour-over
reinject
reinjection
respray
ripple
spate
stem
swash
swill
swirl
swirling

Examples of seepage

seepage
The gaps between the side panels and the floor were sealed with silicone filler to prevent side-to-side seepage of fluid.
Moreover, slight variations inevitably occur in the imprints left by the ducts for holding-bolts and in the degree of seepage between panels.
The drama culminates with the workers uniting in a communal effort to repair the potentially lethal seepage.
The canal that is flat hardly loses any water at all, only a little through seepage.
The inclusion of many minor topics such as bore-hole gravimetry, seepage sampling and magneto-tellurics add to completeness.
Intermittent seepage of sewage into the rainwater system through a breach in the separating wall might also have contributed to the contamination.
Therefore, seepage from tanks adds 85 to 115 mm per year on an average, in a normal year.
Furthermore, collectors for litter percolate accumulated seepage water for the whole period between two sampling days, while suction cups only collected water during one day.
Chemosynthetic communities do not need photosynthesis or oxygen, drawing energy directly from compounds like methane that emerge at cold seepage sites.
Nutrient concentrations in seepage water strongly declined with increasing soil depth.
Therefore, it is important that future studies on seepage water will also include estimates of water fluxes.
There is also some suggestion that the distribution of these reefs may sometimes be related to the supply of nutrients via light hydrocarbon seepage.
Even in the best of manure pits, there is usually some seepage of waste.
Wittingly or unwittingly, such people ' partook of heresy ', and one result was the ' seepage of ideas ' across religious boundaries.
The seepage characteristics were analysed in order to elucidate to what extent they could be the result of liquid water seepage below the seasonal water-ice/carbon-dioxide frost cover.
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