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Meanings of leach (leaches) in English

Portuguese
lixiviação
Catalan
lixiviació

The process of leaching.

        lixiviação
        Spanish
        percolar

        Permeate or penetrate gradually.

              percolar
              Portuguese
              sacar
              Catalan
              lixiviar

              Remove substances from by a percolating liquid.

                    sacar
                    Usage of leaches in English
                    1
                    In Nair, it compensates for the fats that the hydroxide leaches away.
                    Wired
                    2
                    It reduces, flattens, leaches the self, and it grows in the dark.
                    The new yorker
                    3
                    Over geologic time spans, water passing through soil leaches or removes plant nutrients.
                    Organic Gardener's Composting
                    4
                    Up here the thin air leaches at their bodies like a sightless vampire.
                    Children of Time
                    5
                    Heap leach crushes ore then leaches out minerals using a series of chemical reactions.
                    Reuters
                    6
                    It also leaches toxins which can cause extensive damage.
                    Radio NZ
                    7
                    Rainwater filtering through it leaches poisons into Rogerstown estuary.
                    The Irish Times
                    8
                    Under stress the blood becomes more acidic and leaches calcium from the bones over time.
                    Feminist dot com
                    9
                    The older a glass-manufacturing plant is, for example, the more zirconium leaches into the glass melt.
                    Wired
                    10
                    Each link has an imperfect join with those around it, and meaning leaches out between them.
                    The Scar
                    11
                    The result is an insidious chemical gas that slowly leaches the human spirit out of these kids.
                    Gods go begging
                    12
                    The mixture that leaches out is strong.
                    The Plains of Passage
                    13
                    The cold leaches into the emperor's hands.
                    Daughters of the Nile
                    14
                    If that fog leaches out of the jungle, or the monkeys return...
                    Catching Fire
                    15
                    It just leaches all the drama away.
                    Wired
                    16
                    But you know what else, medical leaches were great when they came out too but we've moved on.
                    Wired
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                    Translations for leaches
                    Leaches through the time