What is "leache"

Usage examples of "leache".

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.

The ground was probably saturated with it, relatively speaking, and even now, a thousand years later, it was still leaching by various slow-dispersal routes into the lake, where it worked its way up the food chain to maximum concentration in the bodies of fish, and the mouths of the people who ate them.

To guard against loss of nitrogen by leaching, therefore, we should aim to keep rich land occupied by some crop, during the winter and early spring, and the earlier the crop is sown in the autumn or late summer, the better, so that the roots will the more completely fill the ground and take up all the available nitrogen within their reach.

It unquestionably prevents the loss of considerable nitric acid from leaching during the winter and early spring.