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noun liːtʃlitʃ 1An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. Many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators. Class Hirudinea: many species. See also medicinal leech Example sentencesExamples - Once considered a symbol of the practices of medieval physicians, medical leeches have emerged as a useful component of certain modern therapeutic protocols.
- It's a bit of a shame, especially as the leeches used for therapy sessions aren't your average leeches.
- In the mid-1970s leeches revolutionized the live-bait business in nearby Minnesota and Wisconsin.
- He lay in his elaborately curtained bed dying of the fever and from the leeches the doctors attached to various parts of his body to suck his blood.
- The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.
- The leech is invaluable in microsurgery when faced with the difficulties of reattaching minute veins.
- And we don't get treated at the doctors with leeches anymore!
- You get well, the leech gets fed, and everyone lives happily ever after.
- At the turn of the century, health care seems to have come light years from the days of leeches, country-side doctors and a lack of remedies for ailments such as polio, rubella and the German measles.
- The study also shows that wild European medicinal leeches are at least three distinct species, not one.
- While at rest, the medicinal leech lies under large objects on the shoreline, partially out of water.
- For over 2000 years, leeches were needlessly applied for many ailments as an adjunct to blood letting.
- Most of the leeches found in our lakes are parasites feeding on the body fluids of fish.
- Tiger balm is great because it is easy to carry in your pocket, it's not messy and the leeches hate it.
- Like people, leeches do not always draw blood first time, and some have to be coaxed into biting.
- He says today's development economics is like eighteenth-century medicine, when doctors would use leeches to draw blood from their patients and half the time kill them in the process.
- The key to identification of leeches covers several features, including the number and placement of the eyes.
- In 1833 alone, French doctors imported 41.5 million leeches - a measure of the prevalence of bleeding.
- Ever since doctors were using leeches, policy makers have been leveraging the threat of a medical crisis as a tool to change our minds.
- But some of these operations might have failed if leeches had not been reintroduced into the operating room.
2A person who extorts profit from or sponges on others. they are leeches feeding off the hard-working majority Example sentencesExamples - Robby had always known that the business was filled with leeches and liars - confused, timid men and women whose only chance of achieving success was to latch onto someone who had been deemed successful by others.
- These adversaries were leeches, cowards who feed on the weak and helpless.
Synonyms parasite, clinger, barnacle, bloodsucker, cadger, passenger, layabout extortioner sycophant, toady, hanger-on, fawner, yes man informal scrounger, sponger, freeloader, ligger, junketeer North American informal mooch, moocher
verb liːtʃlitʃ [no object]leech on/offHabitually exploit or rely on. he's leeching off the abilities of others Example sentencesExamples - Is there a simple way that I can monitor traffic to see if any neighbors are leeching off of my connection?
- If you want to leech off someone's Wi-fi to download the update, drive by my house and leech off mine.
- Piggybacking or leeching on timely news is common as well, making it harder still to have any lasting impact.
- It does the same thing, but instead leeches off of political opinions and events.
- I've seen a few of the files on various torrent sites, they are being leeched on by the thousand.
- The main limitation I see is that society would not work if everyone leeched off it in this way.
- Those people who operate these servers… are parasites leeching off the creativity of others.
- They are not to be manipulated or leeched off of for more than what they freely offer.
- What I was thinking of with Wyatt would be an ability to leech off anyone around him.
Phrases Very closely and persistently. you've been clinging to me like a leech all these months Example sentencesExamples - She's barely come to when she's on him like a leech, but Laz will have none of that.
- She likes being picked up, but tends to cling like a leech - both arms tight around your neck.
Origin Old English lǣce, lȳce; related to Middle Dutch lake, lieke. physician from Middle English: The Old English word for a medical doctor was leech (despite popular belief, nothing to do with the worm, but a word meaning ‘a healer’). Physician arrived in the early Middle Ages, and goes back to Greek phusis ‘nature’, the root also of physical (Late Middle English), physics (Late Middle English), and numerous other English words. A doctor (Middle English) was originally not a physician but any learned person able to give an authoritative opinion, especially one of the early Christian theologians. The word started referring specifically to a medical expert at the start of the 15th century. It comes from doctor, the Latin for ‘teacher’, also found in words such as docile (Late Middle English) ‘willing to learn’; document (Late Middle English) ‘official paper, proof’; and doctrine (Late Middle English), originally the action of teaching.
Rhymes beach, beech, beseech, bleach, breach, breech, each, impeach, leach, outreach, peach, pleach, preach, reach, screech, speech, teach Origin Old English lǣce, of Germanic origin. noun liːtʃlitʃ Sailing The after or leeward edge of a fore-and-aft sail, the leeward edge of a spinnaker, or a vertical edge of a square sail.
Origin Late 15th century: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish lik, Danish lig, denoting a rope sewn round the edge of a sail to stop the canvas tearing. nounlēCHlitʃ 1An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. Many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators. Class Hirudinea: many species. See also medicinal leech Example sentencesExamples - The leech is invaluable in microsurgery when faced with the difficulties of reattaching minute veins.
- Once considered a symbol of the practices of medieval physicians, medical leeches have emerged as a useful component of certain modern therapeutic protocols.
- In 1833 alone, French doctors imported 41.5 million leeches - a measure of the prevalence of bleeding.
- And we don't get treated at the doctors with leeches anymore!
- While at rest, the medicinal leech lies under large objects on the shoreline, partially out of water.
- Most of the leeches found in our lakes are parasites feeding on the body fluids of fish.
- It's a bit of a shame, especially as the leeches used for therapy sessions aren't your average leeches.
- At the turn of the century, health care seems to have come light years from the days of leeches, country-side doctors and a lack of remedies for ailments such as polio, rubella and the German measles.
- He says today's development economics is like eighteenth-century medicine, when doctors would use leeches to draw blood from their patients and half the time kill them in the process.
- For over 2000 years, leeches were needlessly applied for many ailments as an adjunct to blood letting.
- But some of these operations might have failed if leeches had not been reintroduced into the operating room.
- He lay in his elaborately curtained bed dying of the fever and from the leeches the doctors attached to various parts of his body to suck his blood.
- Ever since doctors were using leeches, policy makers have been leveraging the threat of a medical crisis as a tool to change our minds.
- Tiger balm is great because it is easy to carry in your pocket, it's not messy and the leeches hate it.
- The key to identification of leeches covers several features, including the number and placement of the eyes.
- You get well, the leech gets fed, and everyone lives happily ever after.
- The study also shows that wild European medicinal leeches are at least three distinct species, not one.
- In the mid-1970s leeches revolutionized the live-bait business in nearby Minnesota and Wisconsin.
- Like people, leeches do not always draw blood first time, and some have to be coaxed into biting.
- The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.
2A person who extorts profit from or sponges on others. they are leeches feeding off the hardworking majority Example sentencesExamples - Robby had always known that the business was filled with leeches and liars - confused, timid men and women whose only chance of achieving success was to latch onto someone who had been deemed successful by others.
- These adversaries were leeches, cowards who feed on the weak and helpless.
Synonyms parasite, clinger, barnacle, bloodsucker, cadger, passenger, layabout
verblēCHlitʃ [no object]Habitually exploit or rely on. he's leeching off the kindness of others Example sentencesExamples - I've seen a few of the files on various torrent sites, they are being leeched on by the thousand.
- They are not to be manipulated or leeched off of for more than what they freely offer.
- The main limitation I see is that society would not work if everyone leeched off it in this way.
- If you want to leech off someone's Wi-fi to download the update, drive by my house and leech off mine.
- Piggybacking or leeching on timely news is common as well, making it harder still to have any lasting impact.
- What I was thinking of with Wyatt would be an ability to leech off anyone around him.
- Those people who operate these servers… are parasites leeching off the creativity of others.
- It does the same thing, but instead leeches off of political opinions and events.
- Is there a simple way that I can monitor traffic to see if any neighbors are leeching off of my connection?
Origin Old English lǣce, lȳce; related to Middle Dutch lake, lieke. Origin Old English lǣce, of Germanic origin. nounlēCHlitʃ Sailing The after or leeward edge of a fore-and-aft sail, the leeward edge of a spinnaker, or a vertical edge of a square sail.
Origin Late 15th century: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish lik, Danish lig, denoting a rope sewn round the edge of a sail to stop the canvas tearing. |