[
UK
/lˈiːk/
]
[ US /ˈɫik/ ]
[ US /ˈɫik/ ]
VERB
-
have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out
the roof leaks badly
The container leaked gasoline -
tell anonymously
The news were leaked to the paper -
enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure
Gas leaked into the basement
Water leaked out of the can into the backpack -
be leaked
The news leaked out despite his secrecy
NOUN
- unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
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an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape
one of the tires developed a leak -
the discharge of a fluid from some container
they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe
he had to clean up the leak -
a euphemism for urination
he had to take a leak - soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
How To Use leak In A Sentence
- When Modin scored from the right circle to make it 3-0, it looked bleak for the Devils, who rallied from one-goal deficits twice before winning Game 2 in overtime. USATODAY.com - Tampa Bay creeps closer to New Jersey with 4-3 win
- Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
- Clearly the megalosaurus in the opening passage of Bleak House is a flight of hyperbolic fancy (inspired, I would guess, by the papier-mâché dinosaurs constructed for the Crystal Palace Exhibition, a couple of years earlier).
- Firefighters said a man had taken off a valve before realising gas was still leaking out. The Sun
- These prose pieces ultimately acquire a kind of poetic intensity of effect in their bleak circumscription of the character's experience, although they avoid self-consciously "poetic" devices: Narrative Strategies
- If you are not inside a house, you don not know about its leaking.
- Without the greenhouse gases, the world would be a bleak, inhospitable place. The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
- During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
- And then a kind of bleakness about the present and then just a blank space about the future. Times, Sunday Times
- The flat roofs that leak need to be replaced, as do the heating system and the windows.