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Infiltrate vs Seepage - What's the difference?

infiltrate | seepage |

As a verb infiltrate

is to surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.

As a noun seepage is

the process by which a liquid leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping.

infiltrate

English

Verb

(infiltrat)
  • To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.
  • * Addison
  • The water infiltrates through the porous rock.
  • To cause a fluid to pass through a substance by filtration.
  • To send soldiers through gaps in the enemy line.
  • (of an intravenous needle) To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
  • Derived terms

    * infiltration * infiltrative * infiltrator ----

    seepage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the process by which a liquid leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping
  • water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil
  • See also

    * seepage bed