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leech Tweet Definition of leech Like Definition of leech on Facebook
noun 
  1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
  2. A person who derives profit from others, in a parasitic fashion.
  3. (obsolete) A physician.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: bloedzuiger
  • French: sangsue
  • German: Blutegel , Egel
  • Italian: sanguisuga
  • Spanish: sanguijuela , hirudí­neo
verb (leech, es)
  1. To apply a medicinally.
  2. 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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