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Leaked

Leak \Leak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leaked (l[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Leaking.] [Akin to D. lekken, G. lecken, lechen, Icel. leka, Dan. l[ae]kke, Sw. l["a]cka, AS. leccan to wet, moisten. See Leak, n.]

  1. To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.

  2. 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.

    To leak out, to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to become public; as, the facts leaked out.

Wiktionary
leaked
  1. Of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press. v

  2. (en-past of: leak)

Usage examples of "leaked".

The dormitories were also going to house volunteers who were assiduously trying to save the records, damaged during last spring when water had leaked down the walls of the vast storage caverns under Fort.

The temper of Jer hattan was always uncertain when faced with such news, and Teresa had called an emergency meeting of her commissioners to prepare for a possible eruption if the news was leaked to the media.

Not only would that make it impossible for the miners to return, but it would also allow any gas that leaked out of the exposed coal to accumulate in pockets large enough to cause an explosion, like the one that had killed Kindan's father and brothers.

She did remember stopping in her tracks as she caught sight of Arith, small and fragile, standing in the dim light that leaked through to the Hatching Grounds.

Information, once leaked, took on a life of its own and spread rapidly.

Once the location of the cabin was leaked, I knew who it was, because access to that information is very controlled.

As terrified as she was of Hauer, when she learned Chance had deliberately leaked her location to the man she was going to go ballistic.

He had controlled the rage, but the hatred and contempt had leaked through, and she had felt it.

It was possible that someone else had leaked the news of her involvement—but no one else had.

Some of that distance leaked into his tone, making him sound cool and steady.

The hot tears leaked out of her eyes to slowly trickle down her cheeks.

Gossip about them had leaked out, or Ed Morgan wouldn’t have known, but their affair hadn’t been common knowledge.

The sound that leaked out made a prowling cat freeze with one paw uplifted, its hair standing out.

Besides, like everything else in Durringham, the residential block was made of wood, and leaked something rotten.

He transferred his memories into the habitat personality, and they leaked into you when you were in the womb-analogue.