The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LEAK
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More clues leading to the result LEAK
- Offering little hope bishop rejected disclosure of secret information
- Number one veg, reportedly
- Spill the beans and stewed kale
- Area in Albanian capital that’s a hole
- Reveal secret national symbol in conversation
- Centrepiece of release by maverick ultimately is disclosure
- Elevated energy in quantity of water leads to discharge
- Disclose without permission national symbol, we hear
- Run out and tell people the news
- It may disperse a lake
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What does LEAK mean?
LEAK noun- A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
- The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
- A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
- The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
- A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
- The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
- (especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
- To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
- Leaky.