leech

About 0.88 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A typically aquatic blood-sucking annelid of the subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
2. noun A person who derives advantage from others in a parasitic fashion.
3. noun A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
4. verb To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
5. verb To drain (resources) without giving back.

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

6. noun A physician.
7. noun A healer.
8. verb To treat, cure or heal.

Similar words

hirudinean sponge bloodsucker phlebotomize bleed parasite minion tadpole fall gatherer

Often followed by

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Word family

leach leaches leeched leeches leeching leechlike