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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024leech1 /litʃ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Invertebratesa bloodsucking worm once used widely for letting out blood in medical treatments.
- a person who clings to another for personal gain;
parasite. v. - to cling to and feed upon, drain, use up (someone, or someone's resources): [~ + object]Her companion leeched her of all the money she had.[no object]constantly leeching from his relations.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024leech1 (lēch),USA pronunciation n. - Invertebratesany bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
- a person who clings to another for personal gain, esp. without giving anything in return, and usually with the implication or effect of exhausting the other's resources;
parasite. - [Archaic.]an instrument used for drawing blood.
v.t. - to apply leeches to, so as to bleed.
- to cling to and feed upon or drain, as a leech:His relatives leeched him until his entire fortune was exhausted.
- [Archaic.]to cure;
heal.
v.i. - to hang on to a person in the manner of a leech:She leeched on to him for dear life.
- bef. 900; Middle English leche, Old English lǣce; replacing (by confusion with leech2) Middle English liche, Old English lȳce; cognate with Middle Dutch lieke; akin to Old English lūcan to pull out, Middle High German liechen to pull
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged bloodsucker; extortioner; sponger.
leech2 (lēch),USA pronunciation n. [Archaic.]- a physician.
- bef. 1150; Middle English leche, Old English lǣce; cognate with Old Saxon lāki, Old High German lāhhi, Gothic lēkeis; akin to Old Norse lǣknir
- Nautical, Naval Termseither of the lateral edges of a square sail.
- Nautical, Naval Termsthe after edge of a fore-and-aft sail. See diag. under sail.
Also, leach. - 1480–90; earlier lek, leche, lyche; akin to Dutch lijk leech, Old Norse līk nautical term of uncertain meaning
- Biographical Margaret, 1893–1974, U.S. historian, novelist, and biographer.
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