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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