leach

leach is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See 3d Leech. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. See 3d Leech.
2. noun. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
3. noun. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
4. transitive verb. To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
5. transitive verb. To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
6. intransitive verb. To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
7. noun. See Leech, a physician.
8. noun. the process of leaching

   Synonyms: leaching

9. verb. remove substances from by a percolating liquid

   "leach the soil"

   Synonyms: strip

10. verb. permeate or penetrate gradually

    "the fertilizer leached into the ground"

    Synonyms: percolate

11. verb. cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate

Synonyms

leaching, strip, percolate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in leach:

chela, lache

Common word forms

leached, leacher, leaches, leaching, leachable

Words from these letters

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