Crossword-Solution: LEECH 5 letters, 108 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Leech	n.	See 2d Leach.
Leech	v. t.	See Leach, v. t.
Leech	n.	The border or edge at the side of a sail.
Leech	n.	A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
Leech	n.	Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.
Leech	n.	A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
Leech	v. t.	To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
Leech	v. t.	To bleed by the use of leeches.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
LEECH	anagram	ELCHE, LECHE

We have 108 clues for the answer “LEECH”

Clue	Answers
"The African Queen" hanger-on	1 answer
A bloodsucking worm	1 answer
A real bloodsucker	1 answer
AQUATIC bloodsucking worm	1 answer
Annelid used in hirudotherapy	1 answer
Annelid useful to ancient doctors	1 answer
Blood sucker	1 answer
Blood sucking worm	1 answer
Blood-loving worm	1 answer
Blood-sucking parasite	1 answer
Blood-sucking worm	1 answer
Bloodletter's critter	1 answer
Bloodletter's need	1 answer
Bloodletting critter	1 answer
Bloodletting worm	1 answer
Bloodsucking animal	1 answer
Bloodsucking creature	1 answer
Bloodsucking critter	1 answer
Bloodsucking organism	1 answer
Carnivorous worm	1 answer
Clinging type	1 answer
Creature used in medical coagulation	1 answer
Creature whose saliva acts as a blood thinner	1 answer
Doctor, old style.	1 answer
Earthworm relative	1 answer
General has chain for hanger-on	1 answer
HIRUDO medicinalis	1 answer
Hanger-on so to speak	1 answer
If you're this, you suck	1 answer
It's a bleedin' worm	1 answer
It's a real sucker	1 answer
It's hard to get rid of one	1 answer
Major moocher	1 answer
Margaret ___, Pulitzer Prize winner for "Reveille in Washington."	1 answer
Old-time doctor.	1 answer
Old-time physician.	1 answer
One clinging to another for gain.	1 answer
One feeding off others	1 answer
One who takes, takes, takes	1 answer
One who won't let go	1 answer
One who's a real sucker	1 answer
Parasite sucker	1 answer
Parasite used in early medical procedures	1 answer
Parasitic creature	1 answer
Parasitic sucker	1 answer
Parasitic type	1 answer
Parisitic person	1 answer
Physician of yore.	1 answer
Physician, old style.	1 answer
Physicians' worm, once	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TERAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with LEECH (5)

THE LEECH Under the appellation of Roger Chillingworth, the reader will remember, was hidden another name, which its former wearer had resolved should never more be spoken.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Thy cunning may soon swell out once more thy shrivelled purse, but neither leech nor medicine can restore thy scorched hide and flesh wert thou once stretched on these bars.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

And I may tell thee that the holy man who came to us last even, I sent him the dream which came to him drowsing, and bade him come to the helping of Walter the Black: for I knew that I should take thy hand and flee with thee this morning e'en as I have done: and I would fain have a good leech to Walter lest he should die, although I owe him hatred rather than love.

The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008

See Bow (of a ship), and Line.] (Naut.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Chide him not, the leech who tarries, Surest aid were all too late; Surer far the shaft of Paris, Winged by Phoebus and by fate; When he crouch'd behind the gable, Had I once his features scann'd, Phoebus' self had scarce been able To have nerved his trembling hand.

Poems Adam Lindsay Gordon 2008

Quotes with LEECH (3)

You twitch as the darkness moves in and out of you. It crawls up your spine and nestles in your brain like an evil thought from out of nowhere, burying itself in your psyche like a starving leech looking for a vein.

Stephen Biro Hellucination

Regin the Radiant and Emmaline Troy: 'Alrighty then, have it your way- you're on your own... Now, if you come across a leech, no offense, remember your training.''None taken. And would that be the sword training where you fly past my defenses and swat me on the ass, chirping, 'Dead!'? Another swat. 'Dead!'? Yeah, I'll get right on that.''No, that would be the training where you sprint like hell whenever you hear that I'm looking for you to train.

Kresley Cole A Hunger Like No Other

Apparently some rustlers had been swiping red-horned wildebeest from farms in the San Fedora area and transporting them off-world to other colonies where they would sell them. And these were known repeat offenders. He could make a packet if he got the whole bunch of them the same time. The pickings were kind of slim in Atro City lately and he could use the money. He didn’t like feeling like a leech around Cindy-Mei.

Christina Engela Dead Man's Hammer

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 204 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).