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/ˈliːt͡ʃ/ · noun
A typically aquatic blood-sucking annelid of the subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis..
The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood.
'Wrecked his body and his mind, no use to hisself or his family or nobody, just a leech on society'.
At this point, I felt this man was a leech. I suspected that he had spent a lifetime living off the good will of women that he met.
The poppy made him sleep and while he slept they leeched him to drain off the bad blood.
Near-synonyms: mooch, suck down
Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.
Her daughter Astrid (new Tim Burton muse Jenna Ortega) barely speaks to her, and her greasy-haired boyfriend Rory (Justin Theroux, proving once again to be a comedic tour de force) obviously leeching off her fame and money
1610, Bolton, Armoriesː As if an expert leech must needs be expert in the physicks (that is, in those speculations which concerne the workes of nature) the nearest word to fall with our tongue, yet not farre from the thing, was physitian.
Use leech when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Leech means A typically aquatic blood-sucking annelid of the subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis..
Common synonyms include parasite, sponger, bloodsucker, vampire.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood.
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