1. Verb
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
2. Verb
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
3. Adjective
Leaky.
4. Noun
To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
5. Noun
To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.
6. Verb
tell anonymously; "The news was leaked to the paper"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
7. Noun
unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare
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