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leech

noun as in parasite

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The trick, says Phillips, was to scoop up a leech before it could bite you.

Annelids, Mollusks, Cnidarians, and NematodesAnnelids are segmented worms like earthworms or leeches, with over 22,000 living species on this planet.

On a canoe trip down the Spanish River in northern Ontario last month, my friends and I kept noticing an unusually high concentration of really, really big leeches lurking at the shores of our campsites.

Treatment involved a “toxic arsenal of emetics, laxatives, diuretics, and expectorants” as well as “lances, leeches, and blisters.”

If neglected, any system can become a host upon which all other systems will leech.

To live with anxiety is to live with a leech that saps you of your energy, confidence, and chutzpah.

Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) and Branson (Allen Leech) got married and were happy.

Verily, there is not a leech that sucks out the blood from the body more than these little ships do this camp of men.

Leech, the caricaturist,—one of the most absurdly over-rated men of this century,—was at Charterhouse from 1825 to 1831.

The old lady overhead has a shrewd tongue, but she is a marvellous good leech.

It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.

The viper says to the leech, ‘Why do people invite your bite, and flee from mine?’

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to leech, such as: barnacle, bloodsucker, bum, freeloader, scrounger, and sponge.

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

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