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Leaking vs Leaked - What's the difference?

leaking | leaked |

As verbs the difference between leaking and leaked

is that leaking is while leaked is (leak).

As a noun leaking

is the act by which something leaks.

As an adjective leaked is

of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.

leaking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something leaks.
  • (in the plural) That which leaks out.
  • * 2007 , Lynne Conner, Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater (page 15)
    • on rainy nights the audience in the pit held up their umbrellas to screen themselves from the leakings through the roof.

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    leaked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (leak)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.
    • A leaked memo from reports that the Prime Minister is planning to call a general election next week.