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How to pronounce “leak”

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Pronunciation guide for leak

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of leak with real speech in context.
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8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
The Potential US TikTok Ban — and What’s at Stakesaid there was a leak not of the
Definition summary
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

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How to pronounce leak

The Potential US TikTok Ban — and What’s at Stake

said there was a leak not of the

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “leak”

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
  • The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
  • A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
  • The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
  • A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
  • (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
  • (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
  • [Verb]
  • (transitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  • (intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  • (ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
  • (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
  • (transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
  • (slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.
  • (slang, US) To bleed.
  • [Adjective]
  • (obsolete) Leaky.

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