LEACHES Synonyms

• carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

• a licensed medical practitioner

• (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching

• children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office

• a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution

• alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

• give medical treatment to

• restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

• a person skilled in a particular type of therapy

• the process of leaching

• an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• the product of percolation

• permeate or penetrate gradually

• spread gradually

• prepare in a percolator

• cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent

• pass through

• gain or regain energy

• a licensed medical practitioner

• a workman employed to collect sponges

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living