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leech
noun
An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class
Hirudinea
, especially
Hirudo medicinalis
.
A person who derives profit from others, in a parasitic fashion.
(obsolete) A physician.
Translations:
Dutch: bloedzuiger
French: sangsue
German: Blutegel , Egel
Italian: sanguisuga
Spanish: sanguijuela , hirudíneo
verb
(
leech, es
)
To apply a medicinally.
To drain the resources of, without giving back.
Bert
leeched
hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.
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