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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
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- 1noun
See 2d Leach.
- 2transitive verb
See Leach. t.
- 3noun
The border or edge at the side of a sail.
- 4noun
A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
- 7transitive verb
To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
- 8transitive verb
To bleed by the use of leeches.
- 9noun
carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
Synonyms
- 10noun
a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- 11verb
draw blood
"In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"
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