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leak
[ leek ]
noun
- an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes:
a leak in the roof.
- an act or instance of leaking.
- any means of unintended entrance or escape.
- Electricity. the loss of current from a conductor, usually resulting from poor insulation.
- a disclosure of secret, especially official, information, as to the news media, by an unnamed source.
verb (used without object)
- to let a liquid, gas, light, etc., enter or escape, as through an unintended hole or crack:
The boat leaks.
- to pass in or out in this manner, as liquid, gas, or light:
gas leaking from a pipe.
- to become known unintentionally (usually followed by out ):
The news leaked out.
- to disclose secret, especially official, information anonymously, as to the news media:
The official revealed that he had leaked to the press in the hope of saving his own reputation.
verb (used with object)
- to let (liquid, gas, light, etc.) enter or escape:
This camera leaks light.
- to allow to become known, as information given out covertly:
to leak the news of the ambassador's visit.
leak
/ ː /
noun
- a crack, hole, etc, that allows the accidental escape or entrance of fluid, light, etc
- such escaping or entering fluid, light, etc
- spring a leakto develop a leak
- something resembling this in effect
a leak in the defence system
- the loss of current from an electrical conductor because of faulty insulation, etc
- a disclosure, often intentional, of secret information
- the act or an instance of leaking
- a slang word for urination See urination
verb
- to enter or escape or allow to enter or escape through a crack, hole, etc
- whenintr, often foll by out to disclose (secret information), often intentionally, or (of secret information) to be disclosed
- intr a slang word for urinate
Derived Forms
- ˈ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- İ noun
- l adjective
- ԴDz·iԲ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of leak1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of leak1
Idioms and Phrases
- take a leak, Slang: Vulgar. to urinate.
Example Sentences
Welsh Water said it was also working to cut the amount of water that is lost from its systems through leaks.
It is not clear if the platform, owned by Anglo-French company Perenco, was damaged or whether oil has leaked into the river.
This is not the first time the Australian manager has commented on the culture at the club - last month he said that someone inside Spurs is leaking injury news.
That scandal has garnered headlines for weeks as Hegseth has pushed back against the characterization of the embarrassing leak in the media.
He claimed he was using it to move heavy car parts but dumped the luggage and fled when the cyclist and bridge staff noticed fluid leaking from them, jurors were told.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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