leak

leak is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as verb, adjective, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. verb. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
2. verb. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
3. adjective. Leaky.
4. noun. To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
5. noun. To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.
6. noun. unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
7. noun. 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: escape, leakage, outflow

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

   "one of the tires developed a leak"

9. noun. a euphemism for urination

   "he had to take a leak"

   Synonyms: wetting

10. noun. soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
11. verb. have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out

    "The container leaked gasoline"

    "the roof leaks badly"

12. verb. 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"

13. verb. be leaked

    "The news leaked out despite his secrecy"

14. verb. tell anonymously

    "The news were leaked to the paper"

Synonyms

escape, leakage, outflow, wetting

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in leak:

kale, lake

Common word forms

leaks, leaked, leaker, leaking, leakless

Words from these letters

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