leech
水蛭,蛭子,蛭,蚂蟥
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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- : 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.
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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.
Treatment involved a “toxic arsenal of emetics, laxatives, diuretics, and expectorants” as well as “lances, leeches, and blisters.”
If neglected, any system can become a host upon which all other systems will leech.
To live with anxiety is to live with a leech that saps you of your energy, confidence, and chutzpah.
Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) and Branson (Allen Leech) got married and were happy.
Verily, there is not a leech that sucks out the blood from the body more than these little ships do this camp of men.
Leech, the caricaturist,—one of the most absurdly over-rated men of this century,—was at Charterhouse from 1825 to 1831.
The old lady overhead has a shrewd tongue, but she is a marvellous good leech.
It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.
The viper says to the leech, ‘Why do people invite your bite, and flee from mine?’