Crossword-Solution: LEAK 4 letters, 369 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Leak	v.	A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
Leak	v.	The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
Leak	a.	Leaky.
Leak	n.	To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
Leak	n.	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.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
LEAK	anagram	ALEK, ELKA, KAEL, KALE, LAKE, LEKA

We have 369 clues for the answer “LEAK”

Clue	Answers
Unintended escape of liquid or gas	1 answer
Disclose secret information unofficially	1 answer
A drop in the bucket, perhaps	1 answer
A gap in security enforcement.	1 answer
Accidental release	1 answer
Admit water	1 answer
Air mattress issue	1 answer
Air mattress problem	1 answer
Anonymous disclosure, and a problem at the end of each starred answer	1 answer
Aquarist's annoyance	1 answer
Bad news for a blimp pilot or a covert agency	1 answer
Balloonist's worry	1 answer
Basis of a reporter's scoop, perhaps	1 answer
Be divulged gradually.	1 answer
Be less than watertight	1 answer
Beach ball problem	1 answer
Become known (with "out").	1 answer
Become known by accident (with "out").	1 answer
Become known undesignedly.	1 answer
Become unknown by accident.	1 answer
Betrayal of sorts	1 answer
Bit of whistle-blowing, maybe	1 answer
Boater's problem	1 answer
Boater's worry	1 answer
Boating problem	1 answer
Boatman's headache	1 answer
Boon for an investigative journalist	1 answer
Breach of secrecy	1 answer
Breach of security	1 answer
Campaign bane	1 answer
Cause of a ceiling stain	1 answer
Cause of a drip	1 answer
Cause of a dripping pipe	1 answer
Cause of a puddle, perhaps	1 answer
Cause of deflation	1 answer
Cause of dripping water	1 answer
Cause of liquid loss	1 answer
Cause of spillage	1 answer
Caused by a hole in a liquid container	1 answer
Ceiling stain's cause	1 answer
Challenge for a plumber	1 answer
Clandestine disclosure of information.	1 answer
Come out wrong?	1 answer
Concern for a plumber or government official	1 answer
D.C. security breach	1 answer
Deep Throat's act	1 answer
Deep Throat, notably	1 answer
Deep Throat, perhaps	1 answer
Disclose secrets	1 answer
Disclose unauthorised information	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

REAA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Unscramble LEAK 4-letter words that start with L 4-letter words that end in K 4-letter words containing EA 4-letter words containing AK 4-letter words with L and E

Sentences with LEAK (5)

Rather hastily, I may as well confess, for I feared my courage might leak away! At first she watched me in amazement.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were commonly written to root them out.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Poor Huck was in the same state of wretchedness and terror, for Tom had told the whole story to the lawyer the night before the great day of the trial, and Huck was sore afraid that his share in the business might leak out, yet, notwithstanding Injun Joe’s flight had saved him the suffering of testifying in court.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn’t leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

The _Scotia_, divided into seven compartments by strong partitions, could brave with impunity any leak.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994

Quotes with LEAK (3)

When God Created Mothers" When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts... all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a …

Erma Bombeck When God Created Mothers

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

P. G. Wodehouse The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can’t leak your hidden intentions if you don’t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the p…

Steven Pinker How the Mind Works

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 484 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).