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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

filtrar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: filtrar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ooze/uːz/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El jarabe comenzó a filtrar de la botella."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To flow or leak slowly through a porous material.

    "The syrup oozed from the bottle, creating a sticky mess."
As noun
  1. 1

    A slow flow or seepage of a liquid.

    "The ooze from the old pipe was a sign of a serious leak."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English word 'wācian', meaning to become weak or wet, and related to 'wēox' and the Proto-Germanic '*waikwaz' (soft, pliant). Over centuries, the phonetics shifted through Middle English as 'wosien' to represent the slow flow or exuding of a liquid or soft substance.

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