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▸ noun: (figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
▸ noun: (medicine, dated) A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
▸ verb: (transitive, literally) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively) To drain (resources) without giving back.
▸ noun: (archaic) A physician.
▸ noun: (Germanic paganism) A healer.
▸ verb: (archaic, rare) To treat, cure or heal.
▸ noun: (nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.
▸ noun: (nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.
▸ noun: A surname originating as an occupation, derived from the profession leech, a former word for a physician.
Similar:
hirudinean,
sponge,
bloodsucker,
parasite,
phlebotomize,
bleed,
minion,
leach,
land-leech,
water-leech,
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