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Leak

noun
1.
An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2.
Soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi.
3.
A euphemism for urination.  Synonyms: making water, passing water, wetting.
4.
The discharge of a fluid from some container.  Synonyms: escape, leakage, outflow.  "He had to clean up the leak"
5.
Unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information.  Synonym: news leak.
verb
(past & past part. leaked; pres. part. leaking)
1.
Tell anonymously.
2.
Be leaked.  Synonym: leak out.
3.
Enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure.  "Gas leaked into the basement"
4.
Have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out.  "The roof leaks badly"



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"Leak" Quotes from Famous Books



... a Spaniard bound for Valparaiso, but she had lost two men—washed overboard in the storm—and been a good deal knocked about. In fact, I began to think that my end had only been postponed for a few hours. She had sprung a leak, the water seemed to be gaining, and after a short rest I took my turn at the pumps with the crew. However, we rode out the storm, and then, two or three days later, we lay becalmed for three weeks. She ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... that your wines don't ferment or leak [the t of the MS. has a k overit.] Always carry a gimlet, adze, and linen cloths; and wash the heads of ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... were puzzled and angry over their failure to locate the "leak." Somehow arms were being shipped across the border into Chihuahua from American soil, but just how had hitherto baffled all the efforts of their ingenuity ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering
... not know," answered Hymbercourt. "Let me think it all over, and I will see you at your house to-night. Of this I am certain: you must not move in the matter. If you are known to be interested, certain facts may leak out that would ruin you and perhaps bring trouble to one who already bears a burden too heavy for young shoulders. We know but one useful fact: Calli and Campo-Basso are at the bottom of this evil. The duke suspects that the states adjacent ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... what deprives me of my rest and, as a lover of our vast and beneficent art-wealth, poisons my waking hours. That art-wealth is at the mercy of a leak there appears no means of stopping." She had tapped a spring in him, clearly, and the consequent flood might almost at any moment become copious. "Precious things are going out of our distracted country at a quicker ...
— The Outcry • Henry James


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