LEECH Synonyms

• 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

• 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

• someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows along

• two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

• one who accepts an offer

• one who takes a bet or wager

• a metallic tapping sound

• any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

• a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.

• a light mattress

• make a clicking or ticking sound

• make a sound like a clock or a timer

• sew

• put a check mark on or near or next to

• a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade

• United States composer (1910-1981)

• perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of

• lose blood from one's body

• draw blood

• get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone

• be diffused

• drain of liquid or steam

• a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

• provide a cure for, make healthy again

• prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve

• make (substances) hard and improve their usability

• be or become preserved

• 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

• emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it

• tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material

• a pipe through which liquid is carried away

• a gradual depletion of energy or resources

• flow off gradually

• deplete of resources

• empty of liquid; drain the liquid from

• make weak

• heal or recover

• get healthy again

• provide a cure for, make healthy again

• a person skilled in a particular type of therapy

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

• draw blood

• draw blood

• a licensed medical practitioner

• a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used

• someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily

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

• primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

• wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard

• soak up with a sponge

• gather sponges, in the ocean