Definizione monolingua

leech

leech (third-person singular simple present leeches, present participle leeching, simple past and past participle leeched)

1. (transitive) To apply a leech medicinally.
2. (transitive) To drain (resources) without giving back.

   Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.

leech (plural leeches)

1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
2. A person who derives profit from others, in a parasitic fashion.

leech

1. low
2. empty

Definizione dizionario leech

	sanguisuga
	blood-sucking annelid
	A worm-like creature that lives in water and sucks blood from animals.

	balumina
	aft edge of a triangular sail

hirudinea

mignatta

Altri significati:

An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

(nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail

(transitive) To apply a leech medicinally.

(transitive) To drain (resources) without giving back.

A person who derives profit from others, in a parasitic fashion.

(paganism) A healer in Heathenry.

(archaic) A physician.

(nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail