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leaked
[leek] 
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leak
[leek]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | seep; make known |
| Synonyms: | break, come out, discharge, disclose, divulge, drip, drool, escape, exude, get out, give away, let slip, make public, ooze, out, pass, pass on, percolate, reveal, slip, spill, spill the beans, tell, transpire, trickle |
| Notes: | a leak is an accidental hole, crack, or flaw that allows something to enter or escape, while a leek is a plant, related to the onion, having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves |
| Main Entry: | come out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make public |
| Synonyms: | appear, be announced, be brought out, be disclosed, be divulged, be exposed, be issued, be made known, be promulgated, be published, be released, be reported, be revealed, break*, debut, get out, leak*, out, transpire |
| Antonyms: | hide |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confess |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | admit, confirm |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, affirm, allow, assert, attest, aver, avow, blow, blurt out, chirp, clue in, come clean, come out, concede, confide, declare, disclose, divulge, dump on, evince, finger*, fink, grant, humble oneself, leak*, let on, level with, make clean breast of, manifest, narrate, open one's heart, own, own up, post, profess, prove, rat on, recognize, relate, reveal, sing*, snitch, sound off, spill the beans, spit out, squeal, tip hand, unload, vent, weasel |
| Antonyms: | conceal, deny, disavow, disown, hide, mask, repudiate, secrete |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discharge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pour forth |
| Synonyms: | break out, disembogue, dispense, ejaculate, emit, empty, erupt, excrete, exude, give off, gush, leak, ooze, release, send forth, spew, void, vomit |
| Antonyms: | dam |
| Main Entry: | disclose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reveal, make public |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, admit, avow, bare, betray, blab, bring to light, broadcast, come out of the closet, communicate, confess, discover, display, divulge, exhibit, expose, give away, impart, lay bare, leak, let slip, make known, mouth*, open, own, publish, relate, reveal, show, snitch, spill, spill the beans, squeal, tell, uncover, unfurl, unveil, utter |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, secrete, withhold |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | divulge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make known; confess |
| Synonyms: | admit, betray, blab, blow the whistle, broadcast, communicate, cough up, declare, disclose, discover, exhibit, expose, fess up, give away, go public, gossip, impart, leak, let hair down, let slip, mouth, open up, own up, proclaim, promulgate, publish, reveal, spill, spill the beans, spring, tattle, tell, tip off, uncover |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, keep, secrete |
| Main Entry: | drain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | seep, discharge liquid |
| Synonyms: | abate, decline, decrease, diminish, dwindle, effuse, exude, filter off, flow, flow out, leak, leave dry, ooze, osmose, percolate, reduce, run off, taper off, trickle, well |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | dribble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trickle |
| Synonyms: | distill, drip, drivel, drizzle, drool, drop, fall in drops, leak, ooze, run, salivate, seep, slaver, slobber, spout, squirt, trill, weep |
| Antonyms: | pour |
| Main Entry: | drop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in globules |
| Synonyms: | bead, bleed, descend, distill, drain, dribble, drip, emanate, hail, leak, ooze, percolate, precipitate, seep, snow, splash, trickle, trill |
| Antonyms: | downpour, pour |
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