See leach in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1670, Hannah Woolley, “To make Leach and to colour it”, in The Queen-like Closet, Or, Rich Cabinet:",
"type": "quote"
}
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"A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century."
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"US"
]
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"ipa": "/liːt͡ʃ/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/En-us-leach.ogg"
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"homophone": "leech"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːtʃ"
}
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "luga",
"sense": "wood ashes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "луга"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.",
"word": "lúgzókád"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.",
"word": "lúgozókád"
}
],
"word": "leach"
}
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"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
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"Terms with Slovene translations",
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"derived": [
{
"word": "leach brine"
},
{
"word": "leaching"
},
{
"word": "leachate"
}
],
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"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "*lechen"
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"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "leċċan"
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"expansion": "Old English leċċan",
"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*lakjaną"
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{
"args": {
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"t": "to leak"
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"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English *lechen, *lecchen, from Old English leċċan, from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”).",
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{
"form": "leaches",
"tags": [
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "leaching",
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"present"
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{
"form": "leached",
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"related": [
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"word": "demineralize"
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{
"text": "Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), page G7:",
"text": "[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.",
"type": "quote"
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],
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],
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"purge",
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[
"soluble",
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"(transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid."
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"examples": [
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"text": "The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.",
"type": "example"
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"To part with soluble constituents by percolation."
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"(intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation."
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime \"Jackass\"”, in Places, volume 19:",
"text": "A more generic geography, one where the suburb uneasily abuts the commercial and industrial, or leaches out to a nonurban frontier.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-29:",
"text": "There's a second half to each video. He remembers now. He watched it passively, over and over, and never saw it. Something comes through. It's been leaching into the background of the world this whole time, in plain sight, and he never saw it, and it's here now—",
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}
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"To bleed; to seep."
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"bleed"
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[
"seep",
"seep"
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"(figurative, intransitive) To bleed; to seep."
],
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"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
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"ipa": "/liːt͡ʃ/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
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"audio": "en-us-leach.ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/En-us-leach.ogg"
},
{
"homophone": "leech"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːtʃ"
}
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izlugvam",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "излугвам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vyplavovat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vyluhovat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "huuhtoa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "liuottaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"note": "lessiver",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "auswaschen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "auslaugen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "kilúgoz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "kimos"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "drenare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "purgare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "filtrare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "percolare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "whakapākeka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "lixiviar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vymyvatʹ",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "вымывать"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "izlužiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "lixiviar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "laka ur"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "vattna ur"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to purge a soluble matter out of something",
"word": "dra ur"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to part with soluble constituents by percolation",
"word": "irrota"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to part with soluble constituents by percolation",
"word": "huuhtoutua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to part with soluble constituents by percolation",
"word": "liueta"
}
],
"word": "leach"
}
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