- 看过 leeching 的人也看了 :
- sycophant
- sponge
- barnacle
- bloodsucker
- bum
- freeloader
- scrounger
leeching 的 3 个定义
- 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.
- 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.
- Archaic. an instrument used for drawing blood.
- to apply leeches to, so as to bleed.
- to cling to and feed upon or drain, as a leech: His relatives leeched him until his entire fortune was exhausted.
- Archaic. to cure; heal.
- to hang on to a person in the manner of a leech: She leeched on to him for dear life.
leeching 近义词
等同于 freeloading
leeching 的近义词 4 个
等同于 bleed
等同于 bleed
等同于 freeload
更多leeching例句
- Improper burial, Dove says, could mean that harmful bacteria are leeching into the waterways.
- And not just in our air or leeching into our ocean, but potentially showing up on our plate.
- In the second category are those instruments associated with leeching and cupping.
- Cupping and leeching were less frequently practiced in the medieval period, although general bloodletting retained its popularity.
- In fact, leeching the internal membranes enjoyed quite a vogue in the early nineteenth century.
- Broussais offered the following explanation for the effectiveness of leeching.
- Then Leeching, after loading his pistol, went to work with his comrade for an hour or so.