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leaking

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈliːkɪŋ//

The act by which something leaks.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of leakpresent participle and gerund of leak

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something leaks.

  2. 2

    That which leaks out.

    […] on rainy nights the audience in the pit held up their umbrellas to screen themselves from the leakings through the roof.

Forms

plural
leakings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).