Usually means: Drained of essence or resources.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word leeched:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. leeched: Merriam-Webster
  2. leeched: Collins English Dictionary
  3. leeched: Vocabulary.com
  4. leeched: Wordnik
  5. leeched: Wiktionary
  6. Leeched, leeched: Dictionary.com
  7. Leeched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Leeched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. leeched: FreeDictionary.org
  10. leeched: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leeched: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leeched: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. leeched: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. leeched: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leeched: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See leech as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Leech)

noun:  An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
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.
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