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# leach

verb (leach, leaches, leached, leaching)

«leach» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (science) To leach is when water slowly washes chemicals or minerals out of soil, rock or another material. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leach/#m1)
2. To leach is when a substance slowly seeps out of something, like colour or chemicals from plastic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leach/#m2)

### In the lessons

Science and geography: rain leaches nutrients from soil; chemicals leach into rivers. Everyday: colour leaches from clothes in the wash. It tells the reader about something slowly draining away.

### Examples

- Heavy rain leaches nutrients out of the soil. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leach/#x1)
- Chemicals from the tip leached into the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leach/#x2)
- Colour leached from the red sock into the white shirt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leach/#x3)
- Over years, salt leaches out of the rock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leach/#x4)
- Some plastics can leach chemicals into hot food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leach/#x5)
- The farmers added fertiliser because the soil was leached. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leach/#x6)

### Note

Homophone trap: «leach» (to seep out) vs «leech» (a blood-sucking worm). Regular: leached.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «leach» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leach/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«leach» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/leach.html) on Mova free.