Ooze
Ooze verb - To flow forth slowly through small openings.
Turn
Turn verb - To move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| typical | typical ooze | typical turn |
| complete | complete ooze | complete turn |
| sinister | sinister ooze | sinister turn |
| nasty | nasty ooze | nasty turn |
| Other adjectives: bad. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Turn your back at the wrong moment, and a chaos ooze gets into the landshark pens and you've got two hundred extra blobs of ooze on your hands.
Source: Dungeon Maintenance -
Amayo Jingorou from Basilisk can turn his body into semi-liquid ooze by covering himself with salt.
Source: I'm Melting -
This also explains how Blake doesn't turn into the Thing despite all the bites and ooze he ends up taking over the course of the game.
Source: Video Game / The Thing (2002)
Cite this Source
Turn and Ooze. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ooze/turn
Ooze & Turn. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/ooze/turn>.
Turn or Ooze. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/ooze/turn.
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