Leak
Leak verb - Enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure.
Open
Open verb - To change from a closed to an open position.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In an earlier episode, an eco-terrorist posing as a submariner kills himself, knowing that his corpse would be stored in the sub's freezer—which would trigger the heat-sensitive capsule in his stomach to open and leak sarin gas, killing everyone on board.
Source: Thanatos Gambit -
Its body made from bark mimics the rotting appearance of the zombies with open sores that leak fluids, dried branches and blackened leaves.
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She shakily pulls out a cigarette and is shouted at by a male officer because the raid blew a gas main open, and that cigarette would ignite the leak.
Source: Film / Battle of Britain
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Open and Leak. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/leak/open
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