Definitions for leech

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Spelling: [leech]

IPA: /litʃ/

Leech is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in leech (ceehl).

Definitions for leech

noun

1. any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
2. a person who clings to another for personal gain, especially without giving anything in return, and usually with the implication or effect of exhausting the other's resources; parasite.
3. Archaic. an instrument used for drawing blood.
4. a physician.
5. either of the lateral edges of a square sail.
6. the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail.
7. Margaret, 1893–1974, U.S. historian, novelist, and biographer.

verb (used with object)

1. to apply leeches to, so as to bleed.
2. to cling to and feed upon or drain, as a leech:
3. Archaic. to cure; heal.

verb (used without object)

1. to hang on to a person in the manner of a leech:

Origin of leech

before 900; Middle English leche, Old English lǣce; replacing (by confusion with leech²) Middle English liche, Old English lȳce; cognate with Middle Dutc

Examples for leech

But the leech was not human, not even of this planet, perhaps.

"I've been put in charge of getting rid of this leech," he said to Micheals.

"We gotta get it out of the road," Flynn said, walking truculently up to the leech.

Perhaps he knows better how deep his hurts are than does this leech.

The leech looked like a field of lava now, a blasted spot on the green Earth.

To live with anxiety is to live with a leech that saps you of your energy, confidence, and chutzpah.

He clung like a leech, dragging her closer in spite of all she 224 could do.

If neglected, any system can become a host upon which all other systems will leech.

It was anthropomorphic of O'Donnell to see the leech as an enemy.

She knew both from Stephen and from the leech that this was far from being his condition.