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leech
noun as in parasite
Strong matches
Example Sentences
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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