Seep through a membrane

Usage examples of osmose.

Instead of eating apples, as Adam did, we work the fruit up into apple-jack and pie, while even the simple oyster is perverted, and instead of being allowed to fatten up in the fall on acorns and ancient mariners, spurious flesh is put on his bones by the artificial osmose and dialysis of our advanced civilization.

One who cannot osmose through material things must remain within the bounds about its body.

An Oti can osmose through matter without trouble or danger, if it exists in a medium hospitable to his life-form.

Still, he was the more mobile of the two, as Linda was swaddled in smartcasts that both immobilized her and massaged her, all the while osmosing transdermal antiinflammatories and painkillers.

If only Zane could have osmosed a single gene from his foster father .