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How to pronounce “leak”

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Pronunciation guide for leak

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of leak with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Paperssomeone for a leak for giving classified
Definition summary: A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

someone for a leak for giving classified

[Noun]
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
(computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
(mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
[Verb]
(transitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
(intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
(ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
(intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
(transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
(slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.
(slang, US) To bleed.
[Adjective]
(obsolete) Leaky.