Leach

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  • intransitive verb. To remove soluble or other constituents from by the action of a percolating liquid.
  • intransitive verb. To empty; drain.
  • intransitive verb. To be dissolved or passed out by a percolating liquid.
  • noun. The act or process of leaching.
  • noun. A porous, perforated, or sievelike vessel that holds material to be leached.
  • noun. The substance through which a liquid is leached.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See leech.
  • noun. Same as latch.
  • To extract metal from (an ore) by subjecting it to chemical reagents which take the metal into solution.
  • noun. A dish, of various kinds, served up in slices. It was sometimes a jelly flavored with spices.
  • noun. A tank in which hot water is passed through ground bark to obtain tannin. Also latch.
  • See leech.
  • To wash or drain by percolation of water; treat by downward drainage: as, to make lye by leaching ashes (the most familiar use of the word); the rains leach a gravelly soil.
  • To remove by percolation; drain away: as, to leach the alkali from wood-ashes.
  • noun. A separation of lye, or alkali in solution, as from wood-ashes, by percolation of water.
  • noun. The material used for leaching, as wood-ashes.—3. A deep tub with a spigot inserted in the bottom, used in making potash. It holds from 6 to 8 bushels of wood-ashes.
  • To cut into slices; slice.
  • noun. Same as leash.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. See 3d leech.
  • transitive verb. To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid.
  • transitive verb. To dissolve out; -- often used with out.
  • noun. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
  • noun. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
  • noun. a wooden tub in which ashes are leached.
  • intransitive verb. To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
  • noun. See leech, a physician.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
  • noun. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
  • noun. Alternative spelling of leech.
  • verb. To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate
  • verb. permeate or penetrate gradually
  • noun. the process of leaching
  • verb. remove substances from by a percolating liquid
  • Word Usage
    "Trees on top of or even near septic tanks, sewer lines or in leach fields are to be avoided."
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    Form
    leached  leaching  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beach  Peach  Teach  beach  beech  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abate  abrade  abstract  bate  bathe  
    variant
    leech  
    verb-form