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noun (wikipedia, leak)
  1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
    a leak in a roof
    a leak in a boat
    a leak in a gas pipe
  2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
    The gained on the ship's pumps.
  3. The person through whom information, especially secret information, escapes.
    The press must have learned about the plan through a .
Translations: 
  • German: Leck
verb 
  1. To allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.
    The faucet has been leaking since last month.
  2. To reveal secret information.
    ''Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.
Translations: 
  • German: (i, ship, pipe) lecken, (i, faucet) tropfen
    (trans-mid)

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