LEAK • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Leak

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/lik/ Listen

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"

See more definitions of Leak...

See images of 'Leak'

Etymology of 'Leak'

Related searches:

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University

Share |

"Leak" Quotes from Famous Books

... smoke a pipe of opium, and told me where to find Chow Hop, and what to say to the chink. And it's all a lie about opium helping a sore tooth," cried the wretched midshipman, clapping a hand to his jaw, "for there goes that fiendish tooth again! But say! You fellows are not going to leak about my little mishap?" ...

— Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis - Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" • H. Irving Hancock

... every crack in the floor with the very best quality of hemp, and over this were placed layers of tar and canvas; the walls were made waterproof, and the doors and windows likewise, the proprietors having conceived the notion that the unexorcised lady would find it difficult to leak into the room after these precautions had been taken; but even this did not suffice. The following Christmas Eve she appeared as promptly as before, and frightened the occupant of the room quite out of his senses by sitting down alongside of him and gazing with her cavernous blue eyes ...

— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough

... balloon out of action one must either riddle the envelope, causing it to leak like a sieve, blow the vessel to pieces, or ignite the highly inflammable gas with which it is inflated. Individual rifle fire will inflict no tangible damage. A bullet, if it finds its billet, will merely pass through the envelope and leave two small punctures. True, ...

— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot

... autumn. Alice says she is going to come out next winter, not leak out as the other girls in her set have done; and what Alice wants ...

— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller

... greatest confidence was felt by every one, from the security afforded by this temporary erection. For, supposing the wind had suddenly increased to a gale, and that it had been found unadvisable to go into the boats; or, supposing they had drifted or sprung a leak from striking upon the rocks; in any of these possible and not at all improbable cases, those who might thus have been left upon the rock had now something to lay hold of, and, though occupying this dreary habitation of ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com