Synonyms of the word

leak

• n. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
• n. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
• n. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
• n. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
• n. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
• n. (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved…
• n. (vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
• v. To allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.
• v. To reveal secret information.
• adj. (obsolete) Leaky.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

discharge

• v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
• v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
• v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
• v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
• v. To expel or let go.
• v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
• v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
• v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
• v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
• v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
• v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
• v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
• v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
• v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
• v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
• v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
• v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
• n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
• n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
• n. the act of expelling or letting go.
• n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
• n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
• n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
• n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…

disclose

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
• v. (transitive) To uncover, physically expose to view.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
• n. (obsolete) A disclosure.

disclosure

• n. The act of revealing something.
• n. (law) The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.
• n. (law) A previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.

discover

• v. To find or learn something for the first time.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
• v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
• v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

divulge

• v. (transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a…
• v. To indicate publicly; to proclaim.

egress

• n. An exit or way out.
• n. The process of exiting or leaving.
• n. (astronomy) The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one.
• v. (intransitive) To exit or leave; to go or come out.

emerge

• v. (intransitive) To come into view.
• v. (intransitive, copulative) To come out of a situation, object or a liquid.
• v. (intransitive) To become known.

escape

• v. (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
• v. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
• v. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
• v. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
• v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted…
• v. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
• n. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
• n. (computing) escape key.
• n. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
• n. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
• n. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
• n. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
• n. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
• n. (obsolete) A sally.
• n. (architecture) An apophyge.

expose

• v. (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
• v. (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
• v. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to…
• v. (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

hole

• n. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.;…
• n. (heading) In games.
• n. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
• n. (figuratively) A weakness, a flaw.
• n. (informal) A container or receptacle.
• n. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged…
• n. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
• n. (slang anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus.
• n. (Ireland, idiomatic, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
• n. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
• n. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
• n. (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
• n. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
• v. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
• v. (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
• v. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
• v. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
• v. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
• v. simple past tense of hele.
• adj. Obsolete form of whole.

impart

• v. To give a part or share.
• v. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
• v. To hold a conference or consultation.
• v. To obtain a share of; to partake of.

issue

• n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly.
• n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly.
• n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly.
• n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly.
• n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly.
• n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
• n. (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) All of something.
• v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
• v. To rush out, to sally forth.
• v. To extend into, to open onto.
• v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
• v. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
• v. To send out; to put into circulation.
• v. To deliver for use.
• v. To deliver by authority.

leakage

• n. an act of leaking, or something that leaks.
• n. the amount lost due to a leak.
• n. an undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.
• n. loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.
• n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that…

micturition

• n. (physiology) urination.

outflow

• n. The process of flowing out.
• v. (intransitive) To flow outward.

outpouring

• n. The sudden flowing of a large amount of something.

reveal

• n. The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
• n. (cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
• n. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway,…
• v. (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
• v. (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural…

revealing

• adj. Informative.
• adj. Of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.
• v. present participle of reveal.
• n. Something revealed; a revelation.

revelation

• n. The act of revealing or disclosing.
• n. Something that is revealed.
• n. Something dramatically disclosed.
• n. (theology) A manifestation of divine truth.
• n. A great success.

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

unwrap

• v. To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

urination

• n. The process of passing urine, that is, of eliminating liquid waste from the body.

wetting

• v. present participle of wet.
• n. The act of making something wet.
• n. The act of accidental urination on or in something.
• adj. That makes (something) wet.