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Debunk vs Leak - What's the difference?

debunk | leak |

As verbs the difference between debunk and leak

is that debunk is to discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something while leak is to allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.

As a noun leak is

a crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

As an adjective leak is

(obsolete) leaky.

debunk

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something
    • Sailing round the world debunked the theory that the earth was flat.
    Debunking the myth of the American West.
    That bullshit has already been debunked .
    A myth that has long been debunked .
    The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.

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    leak

    English

    Noun

    (leak) (en noun)
  • A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
    • a leak in a roof
    a leak in a boat
    a leak in a gas pipe
  • The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
    • The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
  • A divulgation, or disclosure, of information held secret until then.
    • The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
  • The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred.
    • The press must have learned about the plan through a leak .
  • (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
    • resource leak
    memory leak
  • An act of urination.
    • I have to take a leak .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.
    • The faucet has been leaking since last month.
  • To reveal secret information.
    • ''Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Leaky.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
    • Yet is the bottle leake , and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].

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