Usually means: Absorb, drain liquid through percolation.
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  1. leach: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. leach: Merriam-Webster
  3. leach: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. leach: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. leach: Collins English Dictionary
  6. leach: Vocabulary.com
  7. Leach, leach: Wordnik
  8. leach: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Leach, leach: Wiktionary
  10. leach: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. leach: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. leach: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. leach: Dictionary.com
  14. leach (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Leach (automobile), Leach (disambiguation), Leach (food), Leach (steam automobile company), Leach (surname), Leach: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Leach: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. leach: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. leach: Rhymezone
  19. Leach: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. leach: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. leach: FreeDictionary.org
  22. leach: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. leach: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. leach: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. leach: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. leach: Hacking Lexicon
  3. leach: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. leach: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. leach: Medical dictionary

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  1. LEACH: Acronym Finder
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  3. leach: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. leach: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. leach: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See leachability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
noun:  A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
noun:  A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
verb:  (transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
verb:  (intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
verb:  (figurative, intransitive) To bleed; to seep.
noun:  A surname from Old English.
noun:  A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
noun:  The River Leach, a river in Gloucestershire, with a short stretch in Oxfordshire, England, which joins the Thames at Lechlade.
noun:  (nautical) Alternative spelling of leech. [An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.]

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