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Grammar : Verb
Spell : leech
Phonetic Transcription : litʃ

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Définition of leeched

Origin :
  • "bloodsucking aquatic worm," from Old English læce (Kentish lyce), of unknown origin (with a cognate in Middle Dutch lake). Commonly regarded as a transferred use of leech (n.2), but the Old English forms suggest a distinct word, which has been assimilated to leech (n.2) by folk etymology [see OED]. Figuratively applied to human parasites since 1784.
  • As in bleed : verb cause blood to flow
  • As in bleed : verb extort
  • As in freeload : verb take advantage
Example sentences :
  • Leeched ashes are a valuable manure, but not equal to unleached.
  • Extract from : « Soil Culture » by J. H. Walden
  • About the beginning of the rainy season a heavy coating of manure is placed over the beds and left to be leeched in by the rains.
  • Extract from : « Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: » by F. M. Hexamer
  • Not only were horses routinely bled, they were also cupped and leeched.
  • Extract from : « Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology » by Audrey Davis
  • It was as though he had been cooked by the sun and leeched by the rain until only bone, tendon and muscle were left.
  • Extract from : « The Ethical Engineer » by Henry Maxwell Dempsey
  • I was bled, leeched; kept for a month in the filthy Dolphin Inn at Rock.
  • Extract from : « The Love Affairs of Lord Byron » by Francis Henry Gribble
  • The animals trying to get close to warmth had overcome their fear of people, but the cold had leeched the life from their bodies.
  • Extract from : « Shaman » by Robert Shea
  • His Highness said that the Hakims, who were attending him, had bled him, and had leeched the inflamed joints.
  • Extract from : « At the Court of the Amr » by John Alfred Gray
  • He fell ill at Geneva in 1646, and was bled, leeched and purged before the diagnosis of smallpox was made.
  • Extract from : « A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) » by Charles Creighton

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