Synonyms for leak
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1. leaknoun

   an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape

   "one of the tires developed a leak"

   Synonyms:
   news leak, outflow, passing water, wetting, leakage, escape, making water

2. leaknoun

   soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi

   Synonyms:
   news leak, outflow, passing water, wetting, leakage, escape, making water

3. leak, wetting, making water, passing waternoun

   a euphemism for urination

   "he had to take a leak"

   Synonyms:
   wetting, making water, leakage, escape, news leak, outflow, passing water

4. escape, leak, leakage, outflownoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   leakage, evasion, escape cock, fountain, escapism, flight, safety valve, escape, spring, news leak, dodging, wetting, passing water, making water, effluence, relief valve, natural spring, efflux, escape valve, outpouring, outflow

5. leak, news leakverb

   unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information

   Synonyms:
   wetting, making water, leakage, escape, news leak, outflow, passing water

6. leakverb

   tell anonymously

   "The news were leaked to the paper"

   Synonyms:
   leak out

7. leak, leak outverb

   be leaked

   "The news leaked out despite his secrecy"

   Synonyms:
   leak out

8. leakverb

   enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure

   "Water leaked out of the can into the backpack"; "Gas leaked into the basement"

   Synonyms:
   leak out

9. leakverb

   have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out

   "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly"

   Synonyms:
   leak out

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   • Hole
   • Issue
   • Soft Rot

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. leaknoun

   Synonyms:
   fissure (letting a liquid in or out), chink, crevice, hole

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1. leakverb

   Synonyms:
   percolate, filter, ooze

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "leak":

   leakage, leaked, flight, leaks, escape, leakproofness, absconding, spill, tailrace, getaway, leaking, waterproofing, brain, drop-out, fuga, seepage, spillage, flee

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How to use leak in a sentence?

1. Jon Huntsman:

   I knew right at that moment when I saw that article, it came from within, so they send me to a talent coach and then they leak it about me …. You stop trusting people around you and then you really feel isolated. You really feel alone.

2. Trey Gowdy:

   I ’m trying to help the public, and Director Comey, kind of narrow down the universe of people who would have had access to that information to then leak it.

3. David Asher:

   At the State Department in the last months of the last administration we didn’t draw or assert any conclusions, but we worked successfully to reveal certain facts and raise significant questions about the clear plausibility of a lab leak origin, this was a global public service, and it is good that experts and journalists are increasingly turning their own attention to the issue, albeit belatedly.

4. Mike Sarafin:

   We agreed on what was called option one, which was to operationally change the loading procedure and start our engine chill down earlier. We also agreed to do some work at the pad to address the leak that we saw at the hydrogen tail service mask umbilical.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   The most likely explanation is a natural evolution from an animal reservoir to a human, once you say that, which I believe is the more likely, you've got to make sure you emphasize that you still keep an open mind for all possibilities, including a lab leak.