LEAK  漏漏

ISSUE DOWNWARD THROUGH a HOLE, as a LIQUID.
SEEP (OUT)ESCAPEOOZE (OUT)SECRETEBLEEDEMANATEISSUEDRIPDRIBBLEDRAINDISCHARGEEXUDE
Hypernym
  • ISSUESEND OUT.
    • SENDCOMMAND OR CAUSE something OR someone to MOVE OR BE MOVED to a PLACE.
      • COMMANDADDRESS someone, USING AUTHORITY, INTENDING to CAUSE that person to ACT RESEMBLE:as one INTENDS him to ACT.
        • ADDRESSSPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT. ...
Hyponym
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current standard word for liquids leaking out of some place in which they are contained is lòu 漏, and the word is commonly used causatively.

2. Xiè 泄 is also commonly used in figurative senses.

Words

泄  xiè OC: sled MC: siɛt 11 AttributionsWD

    Word relations
  • Ant: 祕 / 祕 / 密/SECRET The current general word for something being kept secret from the general public, but it remaining accessible to an inner circle, is mì 密 (ant. míng 明 "openly, for everyone to see").
  • Ant: 匿/CONCEAL Nì 匿 (ant. zhāng 章/彰 "make a display of") refers to the physical removal of things so as to make them inaccessible to others.
  • Assoc: 漏/LEAK
  • Synon: 發/LEAK

    Syntactic words
  • nabactleaking out secrets
  • viprocessleak out
  • vt+prep+Nfigurativeleak things to N
  • vt+prep+Npassivebe leaked to
  • vtoNfigurativeleak out (liquid); transferred: leak out (as words, news etc)
  • vtoNpassiveget leaked, leak out (of liquids or words) (vi?? ???)
  • vttoN1.+prep+N2leak N1 to N2
漏  lòu OC: roos MC: lu 11 AttributionsWD

    Syntactic words
  • nabfigurativeBUDDH: what leaks out > afflictions, impurities Willeman: bias
  • vadNleakingCH
  • vt[oN]be leaky, leak
  • vt[oN]figurativeleak out [wealth] > be being robbed of wealth and becoming more and more poorLZ
  • vtoNleak out (water; words)
  • vttoN1.+N2leak (something N1) out to (others N2)
泄  yì OC: leds MC: jiɛi 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • viprocessto leak out (also used metaphorically)
淋漏  lín lòu OC: ɡ-rɯm roos MC: lim lu 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPileak
漏泄  lòu xiè OC: roos sled MC: lu siɛt 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPiactleak out information
漏泄  lòu yì OC: roos leds MC: lu jiɛi 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPtoNfigurativehave leaked out
發泄  fā xiè OC: pod sled MC: pi̯ɐt siɛt 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPiprocessleak out; issue forth
發  fā OC: pod MC: pi̯ɐt 0 AttributionsWD

    Syntactic words
  • vileak out

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