leak
/liːk/ verbTranslation
LIQUID/GAS [I, T] › If a liquid or gas leaks, it comes out of a hole by accident, and if a container leaks, it allows liquid or gas to come out when it should not.
sızdırmak, akmak, kaçırmak
Water had leaked all over the floor. The bottle must have leaked because the bag's all wet.3261631SECRETS [T] › If someone leaks secret information, they intentionally tell people about it.
leak out phrasal verb gizli bilgiyi sızdırmak/açığa vurmak
Details of the report had been leaked to the press.1151 › If secret information leaks out, people find out about it.
dışarı sızmak, açığa çıkmak, duyulmak
1151(Definition of leak verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish
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