LEACH
What does "LEACH" mean?
To drain away or dissolve out the soluble parts of a substance with a percolating liquid.
Meanings
- To remove soluble matter from a solid by passing water or another liquid through it. Heavy rain can leach nutrients out of garden soil.
- Of a substance, to seep or dissolve away under such percolation. Lead can leach from old pipes into drinking water.
- The action of leaching, or a vessel used for it. Wood ash placed in a leach yields lye for soap-making. technical
Word origin
From Old English 'leccan' meaning to water, moisten, or irrigate; the modern technical sense of draining solubles developed from this watering sense.
Remember it
LEACH with an A drains soil; a LEECH with double-E sucks blood - both pull something out, spelled apart by one letter.
A little poem
Rain walks through the soil,
carrying off what it craves-
the ground, slowly poor.
haiku
Wordplay
- The chemistry teacher and the bloodsucker were homophones, but only one of them would leach the room dry of patience.
What it teaches
What dissolves you is rarely a flood - more often it is the patient water that keeps passing through.
Quick facts
What does LEACH mean?
To drain away or dissolve out the soluble parts of a substance with a percolating liquid.
Is LEACH a valid word?
Yes — LEACH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is LEACH?
LEACH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does LEACH come from?
From Old English 'leccan' meaning to water, moisten, or irrigate; the modern technical sense of draining solubles developed from this watering sense.
What can LEACH teach us?
What dissolves you is rarely a flood - more often it is the patient water that keeps passing through.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.