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leach
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Leach or Leach Steamer was an American automobile company started in 1899.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English leccan "to moisten, water, wet, irrigate," (see leak (v.)). The word disappears, then re-emerges late 18c. in a technological sense in reference to percolating liquids. Related: Leached ; leaching .
Usage examples of leach.
He had been with Mwynwen frequently, either in his own chambers or her house, resting and leaching out of his body the subliminal aches and slight sickness that extended exposure to iron caused .
The color faded from his eyes, leached away to white and then filled with amaranthine lacking whites, pupils and iris.
In fact making cocaine freebase was so simple that any number of chemicals could be used, the only key element being that you mix your coke with an alkali strong enough to leach off the hydrochloride.
With the compassionate delicacy of a master surgeon, Kharadmon applied the keen edge of his humor to refire the dulled lines leached by pain.
Even their natural color seemed leached, battered to a dulled shade of slate.
She got to her hands and knees, but the color leached out of the world, its deep swallowing green turning gray.
She had a gaunt, wrinkled face and hair leached white by the passage of centuries.
It was not true concrete, however, and seeping rainwater had leached pockets from the material.
It was far outweighed by the physical effects of her recent illness, and what little colour she had leached from her face.
The large volume of water carries minerals from the topsoil down into the subsoil, but in desert environments, soil moisture evaporates more rapidly than it can be leached downward.
The insidious distortions of drake-dreams and the rip currents of primal chaos left a toll of leaching damage.
Weariness compounded the incessant chill, hazing the mind toward dozing sleep and leaching away better judgment.
Not with teeth or claws, but by the much slower poison of leaching your innate free claim to existence.
We clambered to the service road and dropped down into the woods to examine the leaching field that, from the beginning, had formed an unsightly bump in the lawn just beyond the deck.
She had never felt this way before, as if she were wrapped in a weightless cocoon that pulled at her anxieties, leaching them away.