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LEACH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of leaching

Synonyms:

leach; leaching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("leach" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Derivation:

leach (remove substances from by a percolating liquid)

leach (permeate or penetrate gradually)

leach (cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove substances from by a percolating liquid

Example:

leach the soil

Synonyms:

leach; strip

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "leach" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

leach (the process of leaching)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Permeate or penetrate gradually

Example:

the fertilizer leached into the ground

Synonyms:

leach; percolate

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "leach" is one way to...):

dribble; filter; trickle (run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

leach (the process of leaching)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "leach" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Cause:

leach; percolate (permeate or penetrate gradually)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

leach (the process of leaching)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Leach approached me as I returned aft.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Leach’s rage was no longer impotent.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Leach had worked himself into an ecstasy of impotent rage.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Leach and Johnson took no part in the discussion, and it was plain to see that their mates looked upon them as men for whom the worst was inevitable, who were beyond hope and already dead.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Leach laughed and hurled more of his Telegraph Hill Billingsgate, and before either he or I knew what had happened, his right arm had been ripped open from elbow to wrist by a quick slash of the knife.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Leach could have killed him, but, having evidently filled the measure of his vengeance, he drew away from his prostrate foe, who was whimpering and wailing in a puppyish sort of way, and walked forward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Leach, his bandaged arm prominently to the fore, begged me to leave a few remnants of the cook for him; and Wolf Larsen paused once or twice at the break of the poop to glance curiously at what must have been to him a stirring and crawling of the yeasty thing he knew as life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Leach and Johnson were the two particular victims of Wolf Larsen’s diabolic temper, and the look of profound melancholy which had settled on Johnson’s face and in his eyes made my heart bleed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)