词汇 | seeped |
释义 | seeped past simple and past participle ofseep seep verb[ I+ adv/prep ] uk /siːp/ us /siːp/ to move or spread slowly out of a hole or through something: 渗出;渗漏 Pesticides are seeping out of farmland and into the water supply.杀虫剂正从农田中渗出,进入供水系统。 figurativeGiven the intense secrecy of the arms business, information only seeps out in company literature.由于军火贸易极度保密,只能从公司的宣传资料中获得点滴信息。 Synonym ooze Movement of liquids backsplash be dripping with somethingidiom brim brim over brim with something drool funnel leakage pour pour-over reinject reinjection respray ripple spate staunch stem swash swill swirl Related wordseepage Examples of seepedseeped In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Some prominent labor leaders were given material incentives to support the state machinery, and a general corruption of values seeped into the movement. This road became the main avenue through which state power seeped into the city space to reshape it. Even so, there were limits to control and opposition seeped through the few cracks in this monolith. Faced with such difficulties in explaining change, older explanatory frameworks have seeped into the vacuum left by the new focus on culture. 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. Despite official complacency, disquiet about the ' methods of barbarism ' employed in the 1950s as in the 1900s seeped into metropolitan debate. This ambivalence seeped into the park administration's consciousness. Special care was taken to ensure that no water from the bath seeped into the dish during thawing. Seated on a tripod, she inhaled the obnoxious vapours that seeped up through a crevice in the ground. It would be interesting to know to what extent these systems of thought - and in what form - had seeped into popular consciousness as well as into the author's. Their arguments, increasingly, seeped into political discourse. The desert has seeped into the city. There are those who have put asphalt floors on rotting wooden floorboards and disappeared before the asphalt has seeped through to create a new problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It had seeped through the ground through several miles, retaining all its toxic properties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The water seeped in underneath the land, up through the drainage system, and damaged it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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