leech / litʃ /

⚽高中词汇水蛭蛭子蚂蟥

leech3 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
  2. a person who clings to another for personal gain, especially without giving anything in return, and usually with the implication or effect of exhausting the other's resources; parasite.
  3. Archaic. an instrument used for drawing blood.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to apply leeches to, so as to bleed.
  2. to cling to and feed upon or drain, as a leech: His relatives leeched him until his entire fortune was exhausted.
  3. Archaic. to cure; heal.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to hang on to a person in the manner of a leech: She leeched on to him for dear life.

leech 近义词

n. 名词 noun

parasite

更多leech例句

  1. On a canoe trip down the Spanish River in northern Ontario last month, my friends and I kept noticing an unusually high concentration of really, really big leeches lurking at the shores of our campsites.
  2. Treatment involved a “toxic arsenal of emetics, laxatives, diuretics, and expectorants” as well as “lances, leeches, and blisters.”
  3. If neglected, any system can become a host upon which all other systems will leech.
  4. To live with anxiety is to live with a leech that saps you of your energy, confidence, and chutzpah.
  5. Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) and Branson (Allen Leech) got married and were happy.
  6. Verily, there is not a leech that sucks out the blood from the body more than these little ships do this camp of men.
  7. Leech, the caricaturist,—one of the most absurdly over-rated men of this century,—was at Charterhouse from 1825 to 1831.
  8. The old lady overhead has a shrewd tongue, but she is a marvellous good leech.
  9. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.
  10. The viper says to the leech, ‘Why do people invite your bite, and flee from mine?’