leech

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
2. A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
3. A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

Verb

1. To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
2. To drain (resources) without giving back.

Verb

To treat, cure or heal.

Konzepte

Blutegel

Egel

Blutsauger

schmarotzen

Achterliek

Schmarotzer

Parasit

Blutsaugerin

saugen

leechen

Heiler

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/liːt͡ʃ/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From Middle English leche (“blood-sucking worm”), from Old English lǣċe (“blood-sucking worm”), akin to Middle Dutch lāke ("blood-sucking worm"; > modern Dutch laak).