Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
See 3d Leech.
- 2noun
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
- 3noun
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
- 4transitive verb
To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
- 5transitive verb
To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
- 6intransitive verb
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
- 7noun
See Leech physician.
- 8noun
the process of leaching
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- 9verb
remove substances from by a percolating liquid
"leach the soil"
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- 10verb
permeate or penetrate gradually
"the fertilizer leached into the ground"
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- 11verb
cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate
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