1. To permit (a substance) to escape or pass through a breach or flaw: a damaged reactor leaking radioactivity into the atmosphere. 2. To disclose without authorization or official sanction: leaked classified information to a reporter.
The kitchen roof is apt to leak when it rains. Make sure the bucket doesn't leak. Water was leaking all over the floor. My boots are leaking. The tank was leaking petrol everywhere.
More than 33 million people in the United States have leaking urine daily. You can see a gynecologist, urologist, or pelvic floor specialist to help with urinary incontinence.
LEAK definition: an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes. See examples of leak used in a sentence.
Leakage refers to the process or state where something escapes through a hole or crack, often implying a controlled or measured escape, while leaking describes the act of escaping, often highlighting the action or occurrence of fluids.
to pass in or out in this manner, as liquid, gas, or light: gas leaking from a pipe. to become known unintentionally (usually fol. by out): The news leaked out.
A leak involves the release of something. It can be a behind-someone’s-back leak of sensitive information, a leak from a milk carton, or a leak in the roof that lets rain water drip in. As a verb, leak means to allow light or fluid to escape, or to enter or escape as though through a hole.
