ooze
verb (used without object)
(of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
has been oozing
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present perfect progressiveof ooze (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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But since then, Shultz's authority has been oozing away.
From Time Magazine Archive
Take no heed of him," laughed Diogenes, "he has a hole in his head through which his good temper has been oozing out bit by bit.
From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
