Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to leach
Participle: leached
Gerund: leaching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | leach |
| you | leach |
| he;she;it | leaches |
| we | leach |
| you | leach |
| they | leach |
Perfect
| I | have leached |
| you | have leached |
| he;she;it | has leached |
| we | have leached |
| you | have leached |
| they | have leached |
Past
| I | leached |
| you | leached |
| he;she;it | leached |
| we | leached |
| you | leached |
| they | leached |
Pluperfect
| I | had leached |
| you | had leached |
| he;she;it | had leached |
| we | had leached |
| you | had leached |
| they | had leached |
Future
| I | will leach |
| you | will leach |
| he;she;it | will leach |
| we | will leach |
| you | will leach |
| they | will leach |
Future Perfect
| I | will have leached |
| you | will have leached |
| he;she;it | will have leached |
| we | will have leached |
| you | will have leached |
| they | will have leached |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | leach |
| you | leach |
| he;she;it | leach |
| we | leach |
| you | leach |
| they | leach |
Perfect
| I | have leached |
| you | have leached |
| he;she;it | have leached |
| we | have leached |
| you | have leached |
| they | have leached |
Imperfect
| I | leached |
| you | leached |
| he;she;it | leached |
| we | leached |
| you | leached |
| they | leached |
Pluperfect
| I | had leached |
| you | had leached |
| he;she;it | had leached |
| we | had leached |
| you | had leached |
| they | had leached |
Conditional
Present
| I | would leach |
| you | would leach |
| he;she;it | would leach |
| we | would leach |
| you | would leach |
| they | would leach |
Perfect
| I | would have leached |
| you | would have leached |
| he;she;it | would have leached |
| we | would have leached |
| you | would have leached |
| they | would have leached |
Imperative
| you | leach |
| we | Let's leach |
| you | leach |
Verbs conjugated like 'leach'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'leach'
beach,
bleach,
geach,
leash,
lech,
leech,
letch,
meach,
peach,
pleach,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
leccan "to moisten" (see leak). The word disappears, then re-emerges late 18c. in a technological sense in ref. to percolating liquids.
2. From Middle English *lechen, *lecchen, from Old English leċċan, from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”). See: Proto-Germanic '
*lakjaną'.
Sample Sentences
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Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.
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[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground. [2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), page G7:]
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The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.
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A more generic geography, one where the suburb uneasily abuts the commercial and industrial, or leaches out to a nonurban frontier. [2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19:]
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There's a second half to each video. He remembers now. He watched it passively, over and over, and never saw it. Something comes through. It's been leaching into the background of the world this whole time, in plain sight, and he never saw it, and it's here now— [2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 140:]