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leach

verb as in drain, empty

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Audience trust is leaching away fast and Brits are increasingly refusing to pay up.

That makes them significantly better at leaching copper from ore than conventional methods using acids, which often only capture up to half of the metal contained in the rock, she said.

High in phosphorus, it can become a problem when excess nutrients from animal manure leaches into rivers and groundwater.

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A carbon water filter can also reduce potential exposure to chemicals and pesticides that may have leached into your water.

This unusual imbalance suggested that liquid water had once seeped through the rocks, effectively leaching lutetium out of them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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