leach

1. 1.

   the process of leaching

   Synonymsleaching

   Broadernatural process

Other forms of leach

plural

leaches·

past tense

leached·

present participle

leaching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about leach

What does leach mean?

leach means "cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in leach?

leach has 1 syllable: leach. In IPA it is /ˈlitʃ/.

What is another word for leach?

Close synonyms include percolate, strip, leaching. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leach a common word?

leach is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with leach?

1 word rhymes with leach. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.