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Synonyms for leak
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Princeton's WordNet
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 waterleaknoun
soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
Synonyms:
news leak, outflow, passing water, wetting, leakage, escape, making waterleak, wetting, making water, passing waternoun
a euphemism for urination
"he had to take a leak"
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wetting, making water, leakage, escape, news leak, outflow, passing waterescape, 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, outflowleak, news leakverb
unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
Synonyms:
wetting, making water, leakage, escape, news leak, outflow, passing waterleakverb
tell anonymously
"The news were leaked to the paper"
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leak outleak, leak outverb
be leaked
"The news leaked out despite his secrecy"
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leak outleakverb
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 outleakverb
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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#28247 | outflow | |
#32046 | wetting | |
#33163 | waterproofing | |
#42980 | dodging | |
#47328 | seepage | |
#53663 | outpouring | |
#54199 | efflux | |
#55635 | spillage | |
#87565 | escapism | |
#102162 | fuga | |
#165714 | absconding | |
#168255 | tailrace |
How to use leak in a sentence?
These awards are a good reminder about how much of corporate news coverage is not designed to educate everyday Americans but to win the praise of other elite, progressive institutions, cNN earning an award for coverage of the coronavirus outbreak, despite getting it wrong on masks, the lab leak hypothesis, transmission of the virus and more? ‘Nightline’ winning an award for the kidnapping plot of Governor Whitmer, which we’ve since come to find out involved more FBI agents and informants than actual perpetrators? You’ve got story after story listed for awards that not only got material facts wrong but for which other outlets did a far better job of getting the truth.
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.
I'm trying to get over the shooting of Walter Scott and now we're getting hit with this hand grenade, this atomic bomb. How do you explain this to yourself? This was a racially motivated shooting. It wasn't a gas leak.
Absolutely not. I did not and I would not leak classified information.
But for this leak, that would have been the end of the Ronald Greene story, when law enforcement alone are the only persons with access to critical evidence like this kind of video, the process is to minimize the conduct, to keep it out of the eyes of the public, and to protect the police officers.
Translations for leak
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- تسربArabic
- únik, díra, průsakCzech
- lækkeDanish
- durchsickern, tropfen, undicht, leaken, Stelle, Leck, leckenGerman
- διαρρέω, διαρροήGreek
- likiEsperanto
- vía, filtración, rotura, gotera, pérdida, agujero, filtrarSpanish
- نشتPersian
- vuoto, vuotaaFinnish
- fuir, fuite, taupe, voie d'eauFrench
- szivárogtatás, szivárog, csepeg, lék, kiszivárogtatHungarian
- liko, likarIdo
- lekiIcelandic
- infiltrazione, perdita, talpa, filtrare, falla, far trapelare, perdere, dispersione, percolare, trapelare, fuga, fessura, crepaItalian
- 漏れ口, リーク, 漏れる, 漏れJapanese
- 새다Korean
- sūce, teceLatvian
- lek, lekkenDutch
- lekkasje, lekkeNorwegian
- przeciek, przeciekaćPolish
- vazamento, vazador, vazarPortuguese
- утечка, течь, протекать, протечкаRussian
- läckaSwedish
- tiết lộ, làm rò rỉVietnamese
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