leaky
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6.3
Unable to stop urine from coming out by accident
- adjective
- /ˈliːki/
- Informal
:
incontinente
- After the accident, she joked about her leaky situation and how she couldn't hold it in anymore.
- a leaky bladder
- leaky diapers
Examples
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When he sneezed, he realized he had a leaky bladder and needed to hurry to the restroom.
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Why wouldn't it be leaky at my age?
Fiction book (1991) -
She's got a bladder like a leaky marrow.
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She has a history of hypertension and chronic obstructive airways disease (COPD) and has come to surgery for dressings to her leaky legs.
Academic text (2011) -
The doctor recommended exercises to help her manage her leaky condition after childbirth.
Synonyms
9
7.9
Not able to control passing urine or poop
is informal and refers only to involuntary urine leakage
Antonyms
How Incontinent
Surface Forms
leaky positive
Morphology
Etymology
Leaky comes from the word leak, which means something 'flows out' through a hole. A helpful way to remember the medical sense is to think of the body having a small 'leak', so being leaky means urine can escape when you do not want it to.