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patience weaponized into water, ruining basements one quiet drop at a time
means To pass slowly through small openings or porous material, moving liquid bit by bit rather than in a rush.
from From Old English 'sipian,' meaning to soak or trickle, and likely a variant of the older 'sipe' (still heard in some dialects). It belongs to a Germanic family of soft, wet words — possibly related to 'sip' — all built around the idea of liquid creeping in by small amounts rather than pouring.
- geology
- natural seeps leak oil and tar to the surface
- tar pits
- La Brea seeps trapped Ice Age mammoths whole
- deep sea
- cold seeps host life with zero sunlight
- etymology
- related to old words meaning to soak
- strategy
- slow leaks sink ships faster than fast ones
for instance
hanford site groundwater plume — tritium seeping into columbia river aquifer, washington state, detected 1973
salton sea agricultural runoff — irrigation water seeping through soil raising salinity levels, california, since 1905