漏らす
もらす
Also written 洩らす
Meanings
- Godan verb, Transitive to let leak; to let out (e.g. light)
- to let out (a secret); to leak (information); to divulge; to disclose; to let slip
- to give utterance to (e.g. one's dissatisfaction); to vent; to express; to reveal (e.g. one's true intentions); to let out (a sigh, etc.)
- to wet one's pants
- to omit; to leave out
- Suffix, Godan verb to fail to do; to miss; to omit (by mistake); to forget to do (after the -masu stem of verb)
Kanji
- 漏 leak. Read as もらす.
Example sentences
- 私は秘密を漏らしたりしません。
Your secret will be safe with me. - 学生たちは先生の言ったことをもらさず書き留めた。
The students noted down every word the teacher said. - メアリーはジムが彼女の友人の何人かに秘密を漏らしたと疑って、彼に腹を立てた。
Suspecting him of telling her secret to some of her friends, Mary was angry with Jim. - ぼくはその話は人にもらさない。
I will not let the story go out. - どんな事情があっても決してその秘密をもらしてはいけない。
On no account should you reveal the secret.
Common phrases
- 不満を漏らす
- 情報を漏らす
- 周囲に漏らす
- 秘密を漏らす (ひみつをもらす) to betray a secret
- 外部に漏らす
- 本音を漏らす
- 内容を漏らす
- 声を漏らす
- 不安を漏らす
- 外に漏らす
- 事前に漏らす
- 機密情報を漏らす
- 業者に漏らす
- 側に漏らす
- 討ち漏らす (うちもらす) to let (an enemy) escape
Related forms
- 漏れる (もれる) to leak out (intransitive partner)
Words containing 漏らす
- 小便を漏らす (しょうべんをもらす) to wet one's pants
- 網呑舟の魚を漏らす (あみどんしゅうのうおをもらす) the law has holes large enough for the most wicked men to slip through