| Main Entry: | leak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening; seepage through opening |
Synonyms: |
aperture, chink, crack, crevice, decrease, destruction, detriment, drip, drop, escape, expenditure, exposure, fissure, flow, hole, leakage, leaking, loss, outgoing, percolation, pit, puncture, short circuit, slip |
| Notes: | a leak is an accidental hole, crack, or flaw that allows something to enter or escape, while a leek is a plant, related to the onion, having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves |
| Main Entry: | leak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | seep; make known |
Synonyms: |
break, come out, discharge, disclose, divulge, drip, drool, escape, exude, get out, give away, let slip, make public, ooze, out, pass, pass on, percolate, reveal, slip, spill, spill the beans, tell, transpire, trickle |
| Main Entry: | blowout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explosion; something exploded |
Synonyms: |
blast, break, burst, detonation, eruption, escape, flat tire, leak, puncture, rupture, tear |
| Main Entry: | blurt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | utter suddenly |
Synonyms: |
babble, betray, blab, burst out with, call out, come out with, cry out, disclose, divulge, exclaim, give away, jabber, leak, let on, let out, let slip, let the cat ouf of the bag, reveal, run off at the mouth, spill the beans, spout |
Antonyms: |
keep quiet |
| Main Entry: | come out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make public |
Synonyms: |
appear, be announced, be brought out, be disclosed, be divulged, be exposed, be issued, be made known, be promulgated, be published, be released, be reported, be revealed, break*, debut, get out, leak*, out, transpire |
Antonyms: |
hide |
| Main Entry: | confess |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | admit, confirm |
Synonyms: |
acknowledge, affirm, allow, assert, attest, aver, avow, blow, blurt out, chirp, clue in, come clean, come out, concede, confide, declare, disclose, divulge, dump on, evince, finger*, fink, grant, humble oneself, leak*, let on, level with, make clean breast of, manifest, narrate, open one's heart, own, own up, post, profess, prove, rat on, recognize, relate, reveal, sing*, snitch, sound off, spill the beans, spit out, squeal, tip hand, unload, vent, weasel |
Antonyms: |
conceal, deny, disavow, disown, hide, mask, repudiate, secrete |
| Main Entry: | discharge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pour forth |
Synonyms: |
break out, disembogue, dispense, ejaculate, emit, empty, erupt, excrete, exude, give off, gush, leak, ooze, release, send forth, spew, void, vomit |
Antonyms: |
dam |
| Main Entry: | disclose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reveal, make public |
Synonyms: |
acknowledge, admit, avow, bare, betray, blab, bring to light, broadcast, come out of the closet, communicate, confess, discover, display, divulge, exhibit, expose, give away, impart, lay bare, leak, let slip, make known, mouth*, open, own, publish, relate, reveal, show, snitch, spill, spill the beans, squeal, tell, uncover, unfurl, unveil, utter |
Antonyms: |
conceal, hide, secrete, withhold |
| Main Entry: | disclosure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | announcement, revelation |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, admission, advertisement, betrayal, blow-by-blow, broadcast, confession, declaration, discovery, divulgation, divulgence, enlightenment, exposal, exposure, exposé, handout, impartance, impartation, leak, make, picture, publication, revealing, revealment, rundown, snitch, squeal, tip*, tip-off, uncovering, unveilment, ventilation |
Antonyms: |
secret |
| Main Entry: | divulge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make known; confess |
Synonyms: |
admit, betray, blab, blow the whistle, broadcast, communicate, cough up, declare, disclose, discover, exhibit, expose, fess up, give away, go public, gossip, impart, leak, let hair down, let slip, mouth, open up, own up, proclaim, promulgate, publish, reveal, spill, spill the beans, spring, tattle, tell, tip off, uncover |
Antonyms: |
conceal, hide, keep, secrete |