seep

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.

The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.

To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.

Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.

Fear began to seep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.

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.

If the crack is seeping water, the foam totally stops the leakage.

To soak.

wi' the weet / We're seepit to the skin

a young lad's mind, whilk had seeped in, for many a day, the rain of adversity

A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.

Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.

The seeping away of a liquid, etc.

A seafloor vent.

Another idea was that filamentous bacteria covering the hairs [of the Yeti crab] would either neutralize gases emitted from the vent or serve the crab directly as a food source. And this last idea received support when a second species of Yeti crab was discovered on cold seeps on the deep-sea floor near Costa Rica.