亚洲网紅露点

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leech

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[ leech ]

noun

  1. any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
  2. a person who clings to another for personal gain, especially without giving anything in return, and usually with the implication or effect of exhausting the other's resources; parasite.

    Synonyms: , ,

  3. Archaic. an instrument used for drawing blood.


verb (used with object)

  1. to apply leeches to, so as to bleed.
  2. to cling to and feed upon or drain, as a leech:

    His relatives leeched him until his entire fortune was exhausted.

  3. Archaic. to cure; heal.

verb (used without object)

  1. to hang on to a person in the manner of a leech:

    She leeched on to him for dear life.

leech

2

[ leech ]

noun

Archaic.
  1. a physician.

leech

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or leach

[ leech ]

noun

Nautical.
  1. either of the lateral edges of a square sail.
  2. the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail.

Leech

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[ leech ]

noun

  1. Margaret, 1893鈥1974, U.S. historian, novelist, and biographer.

leech

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/ 濒颈藧迟蕛 /

noun

  1. any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, which have a sucker at each end of the body and feed on the blood or tissues of other animals See also horseleech medicinal leech
  2. a person who clings to or preys on another person
    1. an archaic word for physician
    2. ( in combination )

      leechcraft

  3. cling like a leech
    to cling or adhere persistently to something
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to use leeches to suck the blood of (a person), as a method of medical treatment
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

leech

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/ 濒颈藧迟蕛 /

noun

  1. nautical the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail or either of the vertical edges of a squaresail
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞濒别别肠丑藢濒颈办别, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 濒别别肠丑顎僱颈办别顎 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of leech1

First recorded before 900; Middle English lech(e), Old English l牵ce, 濒测虅肠别; replacing (by association with leech 2 ) Middle English liche, Old English 濒测虅肠别; cognate with Middle Dutch lake, leke, lieke; akin to Old English 濒奴肠补苍 鈥渢o pull up, pull out,鈥 Middle High German liechen 鈥渢o pull鈥

Origin of leech2

First recorded before 950; Middle English leche, lech, lecche, Old English l牵ce, l膿ce; cognate with Old Frisian letza, leischa, Old Saxon 濒腻办颈, Old High German 濒腻丑丑颈, Gothic 濒脓办别颈蝉; akin to Old Norse 濒牵办苍颈谤

Origin of leech3

First recorded in 1480鈥90; earlier lek, leche, lyche; akin to Dutch lijk 鈥渓eech, leech line,鈥 Old Norse 濒墨办 nautical term of uncertain meaning, but probably 鈥渂olt rope, leech line鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of leech1

Old English l牵ce, l艙ce; related to Middle Dutch lieke

Origin of leech2

C15: of Germanic origin; compare Dutch lijk
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In 鈥淧arasite,鈥 Bong constructs a multilayered question over who the titular leeches are.

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The trick to their method: Instead of leeching with an excess of citric acid like conventional methods, they use a relatively small amount.

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Disposability is how Amazon maintains draconian control over its workers鈥 fragile sense of job security, leeching their desire to push back by unionizing.

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Luxury has been the death of us, our interests and our passions leeched to a dreary gray blur of programming.

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They鈥檙e tipped into a chemical solution which leeches the gold out into the liquid.

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