Definitions for leak

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Spelling: [leek]

IPA: /lik/

Leak is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in leak (aekl).

Definitions for leak

noun

1. an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes:
2. an act or instance of leaking.
3. any means of unintended entrance or escape.
4. Electricity. the loss of current from a conductor, usually resulting from poor insulation.
5. a disclosure of secret, especially official, information, as to the news media, by an unnamed source.

Idioms

1. take a leak, Slang: Vulgar. to urinate.

verb (used with object)

1. to let (liquid, gas, light, etc.) enter or escape:
2. to allow to become known, as information given out covertly:

verb (used without object)

1. to let a liquid, gas, light, etc., enter or escape, as through an unintended hole or crack:
2. to pass in or out in this manner, as liquid, gas, or light:
3. to become known unintentionally (usually followed by out):
4. to disclose secret, especially official, information anonymously, as to the news media:

Origin of leak

1375-1425; 1955-60 for def 11; late Middle English leken Old Norse leka to drip, leak; akin to Dutch lek, obsolete German lech leaky. See leach¹

Examples for leak

Local mechanics pitched in to help mend the craft, but weeks into setting off the repairs wore thin and the vessel sprung a leak.

"There seems to be a leak in the plumbing somewhere on this floor," the man went on.

They simply would not leak this shocking story about big lineup changes on their own accord.

It is well known that there is a leak in the Associated Press Office.

The leak suggests that Mr. Obama remains blind to the principal cause of his foreign policy woes.

The next morning they found the leak, and both smacks kept off Charleston.

At its core, the tale revealed by the leak of what may be more than a million classified documents is a complicated one.

If there is, a leak in the jar, the lamp will burn, and the jar must be discarded.

Targeting pods can bulge out a bit, and leak out unwanted signals.

If the ship springs a leak below the water line, the water rushes in.