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Showing words for LEECHING using the English dictionary

8 Letter Words for Leeching

leeching

7 Letter Words for Leeching

eeching, elenchi, heeling, leching

6 Letter Words for Leeching

cingle, eching, eeling, elechi, elench, enghle, heling, hingle, leeing, lichen

5 Letter Words for Leeching

ceile, cheng, chiel, chien, chine, ching, cinel, cline, cling, ehing, eigne, elchi, engle, genic, genie, gleen, glene, hegel, helen, hence, henge, hinge, incle, ingle, leche, leech, legin, lench, liege, ligne, linch, linge, neigh, niche, niece

4 Letter Words for Leeching

ceil, cele, cene, chee, chen, chge, chil, chin, ciel, cine, clee, cleg, clin, eche, eech, eigh, eine, elec, elhi, elne, encl, engl, geic, gein, gene, genl, ghee, gien, gile, glee, glei, glen, heel, heil, hele, heli, heng, hile, hine, hing, inch, incl, lech, lege, lene, leng, lice, lich, lien, lige, line, ling, nice, nigh, nile

3 Letter Words for Leeching

cee, cel, cen, che, chg, chi, chn, cie, cig, cli, ecg, ech, eec, eeg, eel, een, eli, enc, ene, eng, enl, gee, gel, gen, gie, gin, hcl, hee, hei, hel, hen, hic, hie, hin, ice, ich, ign, ile, inc, ing, lee, leg, lei, lie, lig, lin, nee, neg, nei, nie, nig, nil

Definitions for Leeching

[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.
[3] Archaic . an instrument used for drawing blood.
[4] to apply leeches to, so as to bleed.
[5] to cling to and feed upon or drain, as a leech: His relatives leeched him until his entire fortune was exhausted.
[6] Archaic . to cure; heal.
[7] to hang on to a person in the manner of a leech: She leeched on to him for dear life.
[8] 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
[9] a person who clings to or preys on another person
[10] an archaic word for physician (in combination ) leechcraft
[11] cling like a leech to cling or adhere persistently to something
[12] (tr) to use leeches to suck the blood of (a person), as a method of medical treatment
[13] nautical the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail or either of the vertical edges of a squaresail

Words related to Leeching

leechtrickle, weep, ooze, drain, squeeze, stick, bumming, sponging, run, seep, shed, gush, spurt, hemorrhage, exude, leech, phlebotomize, exhaust, fleece, rook

Words nearby Leeching

leechlee gauge, lee shore, lee tide, lee, robert e., leeboard, leech, leech line, leech rope, leeds, leeds castle, leek

Origin of Leeching

1before 900; Middle English leche, Old English lǣce; replacing (by confusion with leech2) Middle English liche, Old English lȳce; cognate with Middle Dutch lieke; akin to Old English lūcan to pull out, Middle High German liechen to pull

Other words from Leeching

leech·like , adjective

Word origin for Leeching

C15: of Germanic origin; compare Dutch lijk

Synonyms for Leeching

bumming, mooching, sponging, bloodsucking, parasitical