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# leach

«leach» in Mova's school dictionary: **when water slowly washes chemicals or minerals out of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (leach, leaches, leached, leaching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (science) To leach is when water slowly washes chemicals or minerals out of soil, rock or another material. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leach/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «leach» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leach/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.