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Seep vs Gurgle - What's the difference?

seep | gurgle |

As nouns the difference between seep and gurgle

is that seep is a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface while gurgle is a gurgling sound.

As verbs the difference between seep and gurgle

is that seep is to ooze, or pass slowly through pores or other small openings while gurgle is to flow with a bubbling sound.

seep

English

(wikipedia seep)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface
  • moisture that seeps out; a seepage
  • A seafloor vent

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to ooze, or pass slowly through pores or other small openings

    • Synonyms

    * leak

    See also

    * sip * siphon

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    gurgle

    English

    Verb

  • To flow with a bubbling sound.
    • The bath water gurgled down the drain.
  • * Young
    • Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
  • To make such a sound.
    • The baby gurgled with delight.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gurgling sound.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

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