From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Norwegian Bokmål lekke (“to leak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“to damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.
(divulgation, disclosure of information): Compare typologically Bulgarian изтичане (iztičane), Polish przeciek, Russian уте́чка (utéčka) (akin to течь impf or f (tečʹ)).
Meanings
(obsolete) Leaky.
Yet is the bottle leake, and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […]. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Norwegian Bokmål lekke (“to leak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“to damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.
(divulgation, disclosure of information): Compare typologically Bulgarian изтичане (iztičane), Polish przeciek, Russian уте́чка (utéčka) (akin to течь impf or f (tečʹ)).
Meanings
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
a leak in a gas pipe
a leak in a roof
a leak in a boat
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
The babies' diapers had big leaks.
A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
If he was the leak, it wasn't intentional. The same went for her mom, not that Cat thought her mom had any friends with top-level security clearance. 2024, MarcyKate Connolly, Kathryn Holmes, The Thirteenth Circle:
I was the leak. That the government didn't like our advice, and so I decided to leak it to 'bounce' them into having to follow it. 2024, Tony Holohan, We Need to Talk: A Memoir:
[…] so even if he was the leak, we would never know. 2015, Leena Ching, Scandalous, Purple Diamond Publishing:
A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
memory leak
resource leak
(especially, mildly, slang, vulgar, with the verb "take") An act of urination.
pt vazamento (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · da lækage (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · it falla (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · bg пролу́ка (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · lv sūce (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · pl przeciek (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · cmn 洩 /泄 (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · io liko (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · hu hézag (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · da læk (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · bg изти́чане (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · hy արտահոսք (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · bg уте́чка (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · hu szivárogtató (the person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred) · pl przeciek (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · es agujero (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · da utæthed (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ar تَسَرُّب (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · it crepa (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · cmn 漏洞 (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · da læk (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · tl lagatak (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ru проте́чка (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · sh procep (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · bg ду́пка (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ja 漏れ口 (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · cs díra (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · it crepa (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · lv sūce (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · ja リーク (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · ko 루설 (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · el διαρροή (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · da utæthed (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · it perdita (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · gl fuga (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ga sceitheadh (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · es propalación (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · mi takerehāia (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · hu kiszivárogtató (the person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred) · es leak (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · ru уте́чка (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · io liko (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · be вы́цечка (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · fr voie d'eau (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · hu rés (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · hu szivárogtatás (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · no lekkasje (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · tr sızıntı (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · he הדלפה (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · it talpa (the person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred) · hu hasadék (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · gl fuga (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · hu szivárgás (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · ru течь (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · sv läcka (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · da lækage (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · de Leck (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · fr fuite (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · pt fuga (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ru слив (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · be уце́чка (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · nb lekkasje (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ga poll (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · sv läcka (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · pt vazador (the person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred) · hi रिसाव (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · da lækage (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · nl lek (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · hi रिसाव (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · es rotura (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · da læk (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · pt vazamento (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · he נְזִילָה (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ru пробо́ина (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · bg теч (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · ja リーク (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · ru течь (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · uk ви́тік (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · cmn 洩漏 /泄漏 (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · fi vuoto (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · fr fuite (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ru уте́чка (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · he דְּלִיפָה (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · it trapelare (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · sh pukotina (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · de Leck (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · cy twll (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · it fuga (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · ko 리크 (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · hu beázás (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · gl pingueira (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ja 漏れ (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · de undichte Stelle (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ru отто́к (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · cmn 透露 (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · it infiltrazione (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · pt vazamento (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · ko 리크 (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · it fuga (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · fi vuoto (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · be вы́цек (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · es fuga (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · el διαρροή (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · hu lék (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · pl przeciek (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · nl lek (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · pt fuga de informação (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · el διαρροή (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · lv tece (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · es vía (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · es liqueo (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · cs únik (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · ro spărtură (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · gl goteira (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ar تَسْرِيب (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · fr taupe (the person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred) · cmn 洩漏 /泄漏 (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · hu csepegés (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · hu kiszivárgás (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · hu beszivárgás (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · es filtración (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · is leki (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · cs průsak (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · eo liko (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · uk ви́тік (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · ru уте́чка (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · es pérdida (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · hu kiszökés (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · it dispersione (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · fr fuite (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · fa نشت (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ru проте́чка (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · ko 누설 (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · ga sceitheadh (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · it falla (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · fi vuoto (divulgation, or disclosure, of information) · es gotera (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · be вы́цек (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture) · de Leck (crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape) · it fessura (entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture)
From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Norwegian Bokmål lekke (“to leak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“to damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.
(divulgation, disclosure of information): Compare typologically Bulgarian изтичане (iztičane), Polish przeciek, Russian уте́чка (utéčka) (akin to течь impf or f (tečʹ)).
Meanings
(transitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
The wells are believed to have been leaking oil for decades, long after the operating company ceased to exist.
(intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
No one realized that propane gas was leaking from a rusty tank in the concession area, slowly filling the unventilated room.
The faucet has been leaking since last month.
(ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.
That's another of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I give confidential press briefings; you leak; he's being charged under section 2(A) of the Official Secrets Act. 1987, “Man Overboard”, in Yes, Prime Minister, spoken by Bernard Wooley (Derek Fowlds):
(broadly, figuratively, intransitive) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
A target that is not detected would not be intercepted and thus would leak through the single defensive layer. 1989, Kenneth N. Luongo, W. Thomas Wander, The Search for Security in Space, page 149:
(broadly, figuratively, transitive) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
England were leaking penalties as Scotland played with pace and variety. Russell was starting to find his range and when he threaded through a grubber to Sean Maitland the winger did well to gather and keep the ball in play. Unfortunately, his pass inside just eluded Russell. 2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman:
(euphemistic, slang, sometimes) To emit bodily fluids: ▸ To urinate.
I had to leak in the woods since there were no toilets around.
Go and find a tree. I just leak against a^([sic]) oak over there. 1965, Sam Selvon, The Housing Lark, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, published 1990, page 125:
Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney: and your Chamber-lye breeds Fleas like a Loach. c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
Occasionally bums passed, Mexican mothers passed with children, and the prowl car came by and the cop got out to leak, but most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by. 1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC:
(US, slang) To emit bodily fluids: ▸ To bleed.
He shanked him, now he's leaking.
(slang, vulgar) To emit bodily fluids: ▸ To ejaculate.
hu szivárog ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · chr ᎬᎫᏍᎦ ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · unm psëntpe ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · ba тамсылыу ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · de leaken (to reveal secret information) · es tener goteras ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · izh mehtää ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · la pereo ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · ru течь ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es filtrar ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es tener fugas ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · cmn 洩漏 /泄漏 ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · mn гоожих ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · ja ばれる (to reveal secret information) · pl ulatniać ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · ja リークする (to reveal secret information) · es perder ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · ru протека́ть ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · kw devera ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · sv läcka (to reveal secret information) · cmn 漏 ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · fr fuir ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es salirse ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · nl lekken (to reveal secret information) · de durchstechen (to reveal secret information) · unm wëntpe ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es escapar ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · it far trapelare (to reveal secret information) · it trapelare (to reveal secret information) · mi turuturu ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · pt vazar (to reveal secret information) · hu ereszt ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · id bocor ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · pt vazar ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · es parlar (to reveal secret information) · de tropfen ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es tener una fuga ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · el διαρρέω ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · cy gollwng ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · pl (np. o dachu) przeciekać ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es gotear ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · io likar ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · hi रिसाव ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · bg пропускам ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es delatar (to reveal secret information) · hu szivárogtat (to reveal secret information) · nb lekke ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · ta ஒழுகு ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · ko 새다 ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · hi रिसना ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · mi turu ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · vi làm rò rỉ ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es filtrarse ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · da lække ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · de durchsickern (to reveal secret information) · hu szökik ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · it filtrare (to reveal secret information) · es fugar ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · hu folyik ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · az (su) keçirmək ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · it trapelare ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · es liquear ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es chorrear ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · fi vuotaa ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · az axmaq ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · it percolare ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es gotear ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · mi turuturu ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · haw kulu ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · th รั่ว ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es fugarse ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · hu kiszivárogtat (to reveal secret information) · es propalar (to reveal secret information) · ms bocor ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · sh curiti ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · pl ulotnić ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · mi papī ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · pl przeciec ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · eo liki ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · he טפטף (to reveal secret information) · bg изтичам ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · es percolar ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · ar سَرَّبَ (to reveal secret information) · ml ചോരുക ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · da lække (to reveal secret information) · sv läcka ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · fi vuotaa (to reveal secret information) · pt vazar ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · nl lekken ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · izh nestää ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · vi tiết lộ (to reveal secret information) · no lekke (to reveal secret information) · haw kulu ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · ml ചോരുക ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · ja 漏らす (to reveal secret information) · it perdere ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · ba һыу үткәреү ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · el διαρρέω (to reveal secret information) · tr sızmak ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · de lecken ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · yue 漏 ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · ar تَسَرَّبَ ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · fi vuotaa ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · mi mapi ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · ml ചോർത്തുക (to reveal secret information) · mi turu ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · es filtrar ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · ba ағыу ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · hu szivárog ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · ja 漏れる ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · hu átereszt ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · hu csepeg ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · tr sızdırmak ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es pregonar (to reveal secret information) · pl (tajne informacje) przeciekać (to reveal secret information) · hu csepeg ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · mi pahī ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · mi komama ((of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed) · es filtrar (to reveal secret information) · nb ta inn vann ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · es salírsele ((of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter) · cmn 漏 (to reveal secret information)