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Word: leech
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Meaning:
Noun:
- An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class ''Hirudinea'', especially ''Hirudo medicinalis''.
- A person who derives profit from others, in a parasitic fashion.
- archaic A physician.
- Nautical The vertical edge of a square sail
- nautical The aft edge of a triangular sail
- paganism A healer in Heathenry.
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Verb:
- transitive To apply a '''leech''' medicinally.
- transitive To drain (resources) without giving back.
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