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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1. • Disclose
   • 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. Jay Leno:

   How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

2. Paul Clement:

   This is obviously a challenge for the chief justice, bringing the court into a new term and getting this leak in the rearview mirror, but the court hasn't had this kind of leak before and that's to the benefit of the court, a signal that as awful as the leak was, it's not a sign the institution needs fundamental reform.

3. John Bunyan:

   One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

4. President Trump:

   When you look at releases and leaks and they say, ‘ No, I did n’t do it. ’ Dianne Feinstein, did you leak ? , remember Dianne Feinstein answer ? Uh uh, uh, what ? No, no, I did n’t leak. Maybe she did n’t, but that was the worst body language I’ve ever seen.

5. Henry David Thoreau:

   We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.