leak

Meaning

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.

drip

leakage

ooze out

denounce

flow out

disclose

be leaky

stream out

drift away

outleakage

news leak

passing water

gush forth

drain off

purvey

running off

soak through

untight

water loss

well out

yield

fall in drops

gas leak

leak away

spot with rain

take in water

wantage

soak into

inleakage

leakance

drip into

exude ooze

leakage loss

bleed-off

water leakage

non-watertight

water leak

leak-off

leak of water

leak-off escape

allege

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/liːk/

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.