seepeth
seepeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of seep.
Meaning of seep
Verb
seep (third-person singular simple present seeps, present participle seeping, simple past and past participle seeped)
- To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
- Water has seeped through the roof.
- To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
- Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.
- To diminish or wane away slowly.
- The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.
- (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
- The crack is seeping water.
- To soak.
- wi' the weet / We're seepit to the skin1844, James Lemon, editor, Lays of St. Mungo; Or, The Minstrelsy of the West [quoted in the EDD]
Origin of seepeth
seep + -eth
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