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Definitions for Leak

[1] an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
[2] an act or instance of leaking.
[3] any means of unintended entrance or escape.
[4] Electricity . the loss of current from a conductor, usually resulting from poor insulation.
[5] a disclosure of secret, especially official, information, as to the news media, by an unnamed source.
[6] to let a liquid, gas, light, etc., enter or escape, as through an unintended hole or crack: The boat leaks.
[7] to pass in or out in this manner, as liquid, gas, or light: gas leaking from a pipe.
[8] to become known unintentionally (usually followed by out ): The news leaked out.
[9] 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.
[10] to let (liquid, gas, light, etc.) enter or escape: This camera leaks light.
[11] to allow to become known, as information given out covertly: to leak the news of the ambassador's visit.
[12] take a leak , Slang : Vulgar . to urinate.
[13] a crack, hole, etc, that allows the accidental escape or entrance of fluid, light, etc such escaping or entering fluid, light, etc
[14] spring a leak to develop a leak
[15] something resembling this in effect a leak in the defence system
[16] the loss of current from an electrical conductor because of faulty insulation, etc
[17] a disclosure, often intentional, of secret information
[18] the act or an instance of leaking
[19] a slang word for urination See urination
[20] to enter or escape or allow to enter or escape through a crack, hole, etc
[21] (when intr, often foll by out ) to disclose (secret information), often intentionally, or (of secret information) to be disclosed
[22] (intr) a slang word for urinate

Words related to Leak

exposure, flow, crack, leakage, disclose, reveal, spill, divulge, ooze, slip, escape, discharge, trickle, loss, outgoing, puncture, fissure, expenditure, drop, drip

Words nearby Leak

league of women voters, league table, leaguer, leah, leahy, leak, leakage, leakance, leakey, leakproof, leaky

Origin of Leak

1375–1425; 1955–60 for def 11 ; late Middle English leken < Old Norse leka to drip, leak; akin to Dutch lek, obsolete German lech leaky. See leach1

Words that may be confused with Leak

leak, leek

Other words from Leak

leak·er , noun
leak·less , adjective
non·leak·ing , adjective

Word origin for Leak

C15: from Scandinavian; compare Old Norse leka to drip

Synonyms for Leak

crack, exposure, flow, leakage, aperture, chink, crevice, decrease, destruction, detriment, drip, drop, escape, expenditure, fissure, hole, leaking, loss, outgoing, percolation, pit, puncture, slip, short circuit