Leak

Quick meaning: Leak is a noun meaning A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

Meaning

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

More Meanings

1. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
2. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
3. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
4. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
5. (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
6. (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
7. (transitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.

Example Sentences

a leak in a roof

a leak in a boat

a leak in a gas pipe

The babies' diapers had big leaks.

Word Forms

• leaks
• leaking
• leaked

Synonyms for leak

Depending on context, synonyms include micturate, pee, piddle, piss, slash, tinkle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include leakage, wetting, outflow, escape, seepage, leaky.

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