leech

leech is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See 2d Leach. 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 2d Leach.
2. transitive verb. See Leach, v. t.
3. noun. The border or edge at the side of a sail.
4. noun. A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
5. noun. Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.
6. noun. A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
7. transitive verb. To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
8. transitive verb. To bleed by the use of leeches.
9. noun. carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

   Synonyms: bloodsucker, hirudinean

10. noun. a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

    Synonyms: parasite, sponge, sponger

11. verb. draw blood

    "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"

    Synonyms: bleed, phlebotomise, phlebotomize

Synonyms

bloodsucker, hirudinean, parasite, sponge, sponger, bleed, phlebotomise, phlebotomize

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in leech:

leche

Common word forms

leeched, leecher, leeches, leeching

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