An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.

Roget 198: interval, interspace^†; separation etc. 44; break, gap, opening; hole etc. 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure^†, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.    gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith^†, strait, gully; pass; furrow etc. 259; abra^†; barranca^†, barranco^†; clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime [Lat.], hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.]; parenthesis etc. (interjacence) 228^†; void etc. (absence) 187; incompleteness etc. 53.    [interval of time] period etc. 108; interim (time) 106.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: lekken, lek

Soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi.

A euphemism for urination:
— He had to take a leak.

synoniemen: making water, passing water, wetting.

The discharge of a fluid from some container:
— He had to clean up the leak.

synoniemen: escape, leakage, outflow.

Nederlands: lek, lekkage, wan
Pools: ulotnienie się

Unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information.

synoniem: news leak.

Nederlands: lekstralen, lekstroom
Pools: przeciek

Tell anonymously.

Roget 638: spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse etc. 73.    cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander etc. 818.    waste its sweetness on the desert air" [Gray]; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain etc. (useless) 645; cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve.    leak etc. (run out) 295; run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 295: emerge, emanate, issue; egress; go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of; pass out of, evacuate.    exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate^†; egurgitate^†; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle, etc. (water in motion) 348; effuse, extravasate [Med.], disembogue^†, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape etc. 671.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: doorsijpelen, lekken

Be leaked:
— The news leaked out despite his secrecy.

synoniem: leak out.

Enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure.

Have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out.

Nederlands: inwateren, lekken