leak

Meaning

Noun

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. The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
7. (slang) An act of urination.

Verb

1. To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
2. (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
3. To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
4. To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
5. To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
6. (slang) To urinate.
7. (slang) To bleed.

Adj

Leaky.

Concepts

leak

drip

leakage

ooze

seep

hole

trickle

escape

flow

drop

run out

leak out

denounce

snitch

reveal

dribble

ooze out

pour out

crack

run

be leaky

divulge

spill

flow out

stream out

exude

disclose

seepage

outflow

dripping

leaking

bleed

aperture

pour

water

vent

drift away

gush forth

fissure

spring a leak

news leak

making water

passing water

wetting

blurt

flaw

gap

outleakage

leaky

sweat

trickle down

stream

bleeding

drain off

accuse

allege

charge

flight

flee

abandon

deliver

desert

forsake

furnish

leave

provide

purvey

quit

renounce

supply

yield

gossip

take in

take on

irrigate

exit

gateway

outlet

way out

make known

expose

open up

permeate

soak into

disclosure

drip into

filter

soak through

distil

exude ooze

blab

run-out

wantage

leak away

melt

gas leak

hatch

opening

orifice

sinus

bilge

leakiness

bilk

dodge

evade

get away

get out

slip

bore

burst

trill

cavity

puncture

running off

percolation

untight

drop out

drop-out

leakage loss

spillover

slippage

ullage

leak of water

leak-off

non-watertight

water leak

water leakage

water loss

bleed-off

inleakage

leak-off escape

leakance

loophole

spot with rain

roof

fall in drops

penetrate

pass

put out

bring on

bring out

carry

circulate

issue

print

publicize

publish

release

write

addled

bad

carious

putrescence

putridness

rotten

rottenness

spoiled

micturition

urination

effuse

spill the beans

take in water

well out

discharge

emanation

emission

flux

runoff

spillage

spill out

rat

perforated

gutter

smear

smudge

piss

drain

burrow

cave

cut

den

pit

wound

display

exposure

revelation

cleft

crevice

rupture

geyser

Pronounced as (IPA)

/liːk/

Etymology

From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg-, *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Icelandic leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“I damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.