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Meanings of leech in English
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Examples for "sponge"
Examples for "sponge"
1
Need a new iOS app to sponge up all your free time?
2
I've given you sponge and sonic baths every day... including this morning.
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The chloroform sponge had done its miraculous work and was set aside.
4
Here is the sponge; I do not know where the gloves are.
5
Often times it suggested to buy a cleanser just for the sponge.
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Beekeepers Association president Ricki Leahy said the parasite was a growing problem.
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However, the host-parasite interactions responsible for initiating this response are poorly understood.
3
Quantifying parasite importation has therefore become a priority for national control programs.
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Background: Many different intestinal parasite species can co-occur in the same population.
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Perhaps one reason is to help warn us against impending parasite attack.
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I firmly believe in the European vision, but I reject sponger membership.
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The rammer and sponger lay by the side of the small field-piece.
3
You will become a dependent in this house, a hanger-on, a sponger.
4
He was not a sponger, but a man working for his breakfast.
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Instead of consulting people of experience-ps ,ps ,ps-firstsponger that comes along.
Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
Catalan
sagnar Spanish
extraer sangre Usage of leech in English
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The leech came and confirmed the fact.-Thehouse was closed and barred.
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The king hardening himself as the leech assumed a more lofty tone:
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And now all the evening he sucked the books like a leech.
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I would try venesection; then cup, if necessary, or leech the temple.
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The leech farm makes a tidy profit shipping them to doctors worldwide.
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There was nothing better than getting the upper hand with a leech.
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He had thought Wagner was perfect but he was just a leech.
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Now be keerful and not run afoul of the plaguey lye leech.
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The salivary complex of the leech Haementeria depressa produces potent anticoagulant components.
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Crime is like a leech on the body, it will have blood.
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The leech gave him a draught of medicated wine, mixed with water.
12
Go to your ephemerides, leech, and conjure the meaning out of that.
13
Amintas meanwhile has been cured of his wounds by a Druid leech.
14
There is no horse-leech that sticks so fast as your latter-day Philistine.
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One leech dropped suddenly off, bouncing to the ground at my feet.
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He is a notable leech, as many men have found ere now.
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Translations for leech
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Leech through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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