leakage

Noun

Meaning

A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.

An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

escape outflow loss exudation emission discharge leak spill ooze seepage efflux drainage percolation redeye release
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Antonyms

contain enclose attorney-client privilege gag rule gag order gag law
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Hypernyms

run discharge outpouring

Phrases with the word

red cells leakage fecal leakage leakage intake system orange oily leakage anal leakage leakage inductance

Examples

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. Mary Douglas

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. Daniel Goleman

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism. Greg Bear

The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. Henry Rollins

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget. Mary Roach

they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

leak-proof leak-tight leakable leakage current leakage inductance leakage intake system