seep

Some of it seeps down into the ground through the spaces between soil and rock particles.

So, when he puts the butter on, it's seeping through the pores and essentially caramelizing the bottom.

And when this water seeps into the rocks and reaches the algae, they essentially wake up and start photosynthesizing — producing food and fixing carbon in one of Earth’s least friendly environments.

Of course, soil is somewhat permeable, so you need to constantly pump out the water that manages to seep through.

That’s the job of a well, which, at its simplest, is just a hole into which groundwater can seep from the surrounding soil.

Construction crews use well points, small evenly spaced wells and pumps, to draw water out of the soil so it can’t seep to areas of lower pressure.