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Word entry · 4 letters

leak

Best crossword clue

"Let fluid escape"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /liːk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aeklStarts with LEnds with K1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out

Word origin

From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak”).

Used in a sentence

  • a leak in a roof
  • a leak in a boat
  • a leak in a gas pipe

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