Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
3. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
4. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
5. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
6. (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
7. (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
8. (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 leak gained on the ship's pumps.

The babies' diapers had big leaks.

The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.

[…] so even if he was the leak, we would never know.

I was the leak. That the government didn't like our advice, and so I decided to leak it to 'bounce' them into having to follow it.

Word Forms

• leaks
• leaking
• leaked
• more leak
• most leak

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When Should You Use Leak?

Use leak when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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