"seepage" meaning in English

See seepage in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-seepage.wav [Southern-England] Forms: seepages [plural]
Etymology: seep + -age Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|seep|age}} seep + -age Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} seepage (countable and uncountable, plural seepages)
  1. The process by which something, especially a liquid, leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping. (Also used figuratively: the process of diffusing.) Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (process): просмукване (prosmukvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), průsak (Czech), tihkuminen (Finnish), filtración [feminine] (Galician), Versickerung [feminine] (German), Einsickerung [feminine] (German), הסתננות (histanenút) (Hebrew), szivárgás (Hungarian), papītanga (Maori), infiltração [feminine] (Portuguese), проса́чивание (prosáčivanije) (Russian), инфильтра́ция (infilʹtrácija) (Russian), filtración (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-seepage-en-noun-tKgOXNBg Disambiguation of 'process': 100 0
  2. Water that has seeped or oozed through a porous soil. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Water Translations (water): утечка (utečka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), kwel [masculine] (Dutch), инфильтра́т (infilʹtrát) (Russian), filtración [feminine] (Spanish), sızıntı (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-seepage-en-noun-V2q-uvbH Disambiguation of Water: 18 82 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -age Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 87 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 84 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -age: 19 81 Disambiguation of 'water': 11 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: antiseepage, microseepage, seepage bed

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      "sense": "process",
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