leach
About 1.55 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
- noun A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
- noun Alternative spelling of leech.
- noun A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
- verb To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.
- verb To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.
- verb To bleed; to seep.
Similar words
percolate strip filter leachate disband dissolve lech release introduce liberate
Often followed by
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Word family
leachabilities leachability leachable leached leacher leachers leaches leaching leech
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