LEAK OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leak out mean? 

• LEAK OUT (verb)
  The verb LEAK OUT has 1 sense:

1. be leaked

  Familiarity information: LEAK OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAK OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be leaked

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

leak; leak out

Context example:

The news leaked out despite his secrecy

Hypernyms (to "leak out" is one way to...):

break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

It comes from substances that leak out of blood capillaries (the smallest type of blood vessel).

(Interstitial fluid, NCI Dictionary)

It is of enormous importance that nothing further should leak out.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Blistering and tissue damage caused by certain drugs when they leak out of a vein into the tissue around it.

(Extravasation injury, NCI Dictionary)

A condition in which fluid and proteins leak out of tiny blood vessels and flow into surrounding tissues, resulting in dangerously low blood pressure.

(Capillary leak syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

I hesitated at first to promise; but on thinking of the state of her mother's health, and how the knowledge of such a thing would fret her, and thinking, too, of how such a story might become distorted—nay, infallibly would—in case it should leak out, I thought it wiser to do so.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If I have not said much about it before, it was, of course, that the Professor's earnest desire was that no possible rumor of the unanswerable argument which we carried should be allowed to leak out until the moment came when his enemies were to be confuted.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)