The meaning of Leech

Leech – definition

noun
An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators.
Usage examples:
The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.
noun
A person who extorts profit from or sponges on others.
Usage examples:
They are leeches feeding off the hard-working majority
Synonims:
Parasite Clinger Barnacle Bloodsucker Passenger Layabout Extortioner Sycophant Toady Hanger-on Fawner Yes man Scrounger Sponger Freeloader Ligger Junketeer Cadger Mooch Moocher Suck-up

verb
Habitually exploit or rely on.
Usage examples:
He's leeching off the abilities of others

noun
A doctor or healer.

noun
The after or leeward edge of a fore-and-aft sail, the leeward edge of a spinnaker, or a vertical edge of a square sail.

noun
A fat worm that lives in wet places and fastens itself onto the bodies of humans and animals to suck their blood

Leech translation into English

Leech: translate from English into Chinese

水蛭, 蛭, 吸血鬼, 马蟥, 马鳖

Leech: translate from English into Dutch

Bloedzuiger, Lijk, Aderlaten

Leech: translate from English into French

Sangsue

Leech: translate from English into German

Blutegel, Egel, Blutsauger

Leech: translate from English into Hindi

जोंक, चिकित्सक, वैद्य, घाव में जोंक लगाना

Leech: translate from English into Italian

Sanguisuga

Leech: translate from English into Korean

거머리, 의사, 거머리를 붙여서 피를 빼다, 사람에게 거머리를 붙여서 피를 빼다, 달라붙어 떨어지지 않다, 사람 따위에 달라붙어 떨어지지 않다, 재산 따위에 달라붙어 떨어지지 않다

Leech: translate from English into Russian

Пиявка, Задняя шкаторина, Ставить пиявки, Кровосос, Кровопийца, Вымогатель, Приставать, Привязываться, Боковая шкаторина

Leech: translate from English into Spanish

Sanguijuela

Word origin

late 15th century: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish lik, Danish lig, denoting a rope sewn round the edge of a sail to stop the canvas tearing.

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Leech – similar words

leeched

verb
Habitually exploit or rely on.
Usage examples:
He's leeching off the abilities of others

noun
An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators.
Usage examples:
The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.

noun
A person who extorts profit from or sponges on others.
Usage examples:
They are leeches feeding off the hard-working majority

All meanings and translations of Leeched

Leech synonims

barnacle

noun
A marine crustacean with an external shell, which attaches itself permanently to a surface and feeds by filtering particles from the water using its modified feathery legs.
Usage examples:
Many species, including lobsters, crayfish, barnacles, and crabs are important to human economies, …

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bloodsucker

noun
An insect or other animal that sucks blood, especially a leech or a mosquito.
Usage examples:
The female mosquitoes become the bloodsuckers, and they use their long proboscis to bite other anim…

noun
An animal or insect that sucks blood from other animals
Usage examples:
Leeches and mosquitoes are bloodsuckers.

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cadger

noun
A person who tries to get something from someone else without paying for it
Usage examples:
Watch out - he’s a cadger who will borrow anything you have and never return it.

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extortioner

noun
A person who obtains something by force or threats

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fawner

noun
A person who gives a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection.
Usage examples:
Powerful people are always surrounded by fawners

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freeloader

noun
A person who takes advantage of others' generosity without giving anything in return.
Usage examples:
They look like a bunch of freeloaders trying to take advantage of the whole situation.

noun
A person who has the advantage of something given, such as money, food, or a place to stay, without offering anything in exchange

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hanger-on

noun
A person who tries to be friendly and spend time with rich or important people to get some advantage
Usage examples:
Wherever there are rock stars, there are always hangers-on.

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junketeer

noun
A person who regularly goes on trips or attends functions at another's expense, typically for supposed work purposes.
Usage examples:
The junketeers also charged videos to council credit cards instead of paying for them out of their …

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layabout

noun
A person who habitually does little or no work.
Usage examples:
‘how'd you get mixed up with that layabout?’

noun
A person who is unwilling to work

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mooch

verb
Ask for or obtain (something) without paying for it.
Usage examples:
A bunch of your friends will show up, mooching food

noun
Loiter in a bored or listless manner.
Usage examples:
He just mooched about his bedsit

verb
To walk or do things slowly and without much purpose
Usage examples:
Disapproving stop mooching (about/around) in your room and do something useful!, you're old enough …

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moocher

noun
A person who lives off others without giving anything in return.
Usage examples:
No one gave me any handouts like these moochers expect

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parasite

noun
An organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.
Usage examples:
The parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes

noun
An animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it

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passenger

noun
A traveller on a public or private conveyance other than the driver, pilot, or crew.
Usage examples:
More than 50 passengers escaped injury when a train was derailed

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scrounger

noun
A person who borrows from or lives off others.
Usage examples:
Welfare scroungers

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sponger

noun
A person who lives at others' expense.
Usage examples:
Asylum-seekers and refugees are not spongers and freeloaders, according to minister o'donoghue.

noun
A person who gets money, food, etc. from other people, especially in order to live without working

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suck-up

phrasal verb
To try to win the approval and good opinion of someone in authority
Usage examples:
She’s always sucking up to the boss, telling him how wonderful he is.

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sycophant

noun
A person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage.
Usage examples:
Because he is high-ranking, he's surrounded by sycophants

noun
Someone who praises powerful or rich people in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them
Usage examples:
The prime minister is surrounded by sycophants.

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toady

noun
A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.
Usage examples:
He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a…

verb
Act in an obsequious way.
Usage examples:
She imagined him toadying to his rich clients

noun
A person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them
Usage examples:
Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by an entourage of toadies., shostakovich was often seen as a p…

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