Leak is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LEAK in dictionary:

VERB:
• to seep through
• (of a container or covering) accidentally lose or admit contents, especially liquid or gas, through a hole or crack
• (of liquid, gas, etc.) be accidentally lost or admitted through a hole or crack in a container or covering
• (of secret information) become known
• intentionally disclose (secret information)
• 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.
• The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship\'s pumps.
• tell anonymously
• be leaked
• enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure
• have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out
• let liquid etc in or out
NOUN:
• a hole in a container or covering through which contents may accidentally pass
• an instance of leaking
• an intentional disclosure of secret information
• hole or defect that allows the escape or entrance of liquid, gas, radiation, etc
• To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
• 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.
• an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape
• soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
• a euphemism for urination
• the discharge of a fluid from some container
• unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
ADJECTIVE:
• Leaky.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to permit the escape of something through a breach or flaw

Words related to LEAK

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Words that contain LEAK

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How to use LEAK in a sentence

• P, concluded that there was nothing to do but to spring a leak.
• An hour later, at La Porte, the nail was still doing good service and no leak could be detected.
• In this case it is necessary to stop the flow of blood by pressing upon the hose somewhere between the heart and the leak.
• If the leak is in the leg, apply pressure as in figure 2.
• The wooden ship, somewhat strained by this interminable struggle, commenced to leak, and the crew had to work the hand-pumps night and day.
• The latter may leak, but not so as to endanger the dam.
• So much of the best blood left Norway that the king tried to stay the leak by fines and punishments, but in vain.
• Meanwhile our good friend Miller attacked the leak and traced it to the stern.
• Miller made the excellent job in overcoming this difficulty which I expected, and since the ship has been afloat and loaded the leak is found to be enormously reduced.
• Captain Ephraim and the seaman seized it, and dragged it across the mouth of the huge gaping leak.
• The cause is not known, but soon after starting a leak developed, beyond the capacity of the pumps.
• Their sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.
• The ship began to leak, so that it was as if by a miracle that it was able to put in at the Terceras.
• The ship sprang a leak, and took so much water into the hold that they reached the Terceras as by a miracle.
• One patache sprang a leak, and commenced to take in water so badly that it was forced to make port and remain there.
• Usually a leak in a dam or reservoir occurs near the bottom.
• Clearly there was a leak somewhere, and he must play the game warily until he discovered it.
• If he could only render his mind a blank until it recovered its equilibrium, a ray of sunshine must leak in somewhere.
• It is not good that these things should leak out and reach the public ear.
• Since the gaps in the open seams were so large that it would leak like a sieve, he realized his work would have to be done at the spot where the boat was found.
• Outside, the dull fall of the rain beat evenly, and in some angle dripped the spouting pulses of a leak.
• It was the leak which gave them most cause for anxiety.
• I could counteract this evil only by shifting my tobacco from cheek to cheek, and in this way I got on tolerably well until my navy sprang a leak near the stern.
• Now a long and a hard voyage they had, and the leak gained on the ship, and men began to be exceeding worn with toil.
• What an opportunity for her confession! Why did she so dread to tell Dorothy what her own five dollars had gone for? Nat said it would positively leak out some day.
• They had evidently sprung a serious leak, which was the more cause for anxiety that they were returning in ballast, and had no timber cargo to keep them afloat.
• The cutter was near being lost, by suddenly filling with water, which obliged them to throw several things overboard, before they could free her, and stop the leak she had sprung.

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