leach

IPA: ɫˈitʃ

A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
A surname from Old English.
A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States.
An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
(nautical) Alternative spelling of leech. [An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.]

(transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
(intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
(figurative, intransitive) To bleed, seep.

Examples of "leach" in Sentences

They were already running one of these so-called leach mines near Corpus Christi.
I pay and you leach, that is why he is prez for a while, T-minus 31 months and counting.
Trees on top of or even near septic tanks, sewer lines or in leach fields are to be avoided.
BPA has been shown to leach, which is a serious problem because it messes with hormones, disrupting them.
[133] The origin of the word leach (physician), which has puzzled some inquirers, is from lids or leac, a body.
My understanding of the BPA issue is that BPA may leach from the polycarbonate after long use or repeated exposure to high and low temps.
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