leak

IPA: ɫˈik

noun

  • A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
  • The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
  • A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
  • The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
  • A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
  • (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
  • (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
  • A surname.

verb

  • (transitive, intransitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  • (intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  • (transitive, intransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
  • (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
  • (transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
  • (slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.
  • (slang, US) To bleed.

adjective

  • (obsolete) Leaky.
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Examples of "leak" in Sentences

  • The memo was leaked to the media.
  • The Atlanta suffered profuse leaking.
  • The news of the plot leaked to the king.
  • Roofs would leak in the cramped classrooms.
  • The memo was subsequently leaked to the media.
  • The roof leaked and rats gnawed at the cables.
  • Ted was later condemned for this information leak.
  • The memorandum was leaked to the press in October 1991.
  • Some questions were allegedly leaked to the contestants.
  • The politician escaped the embarrassment of her leaked audio tape.

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