leaches

• boils down
• clarifies
• cleans
• cleanses
• compacts
• concentrates
• condenses
• decocts
• deepens
• distills
• distils
• enhances
• enriches
• evaporates
• extracts
• filters
• flushes
• fortifies
• hardens
• heightens
• intensifies
• percolates
• purges
• purifies
• reconcentrates
• recondenses
• reduces
• refines
• removes
• richens
• screens
• solidifies
• strains
• strengthens

• adulterates
• cuts
• dilutes
• thins
• weakens

• noun
  1. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
  2. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
  3. A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
  4. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
  5. A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
  6. A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
  7. A physician.
  8. (Heathenry) A healer.
  9. The vertical edge of a square sail.
  10. The aft edge of a triangular sail.
• verb
  1. To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
  2. To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

• The salt leaches out of the soil during heavy rainfall.
• Over time, the dye leaches from the fabric when washed repeatedly.
• This type of plastic leaches harmful chemicals when exposed to heat.
• The pesticide leaches into the ground and affects nearby plants.
• The ash from the fire leaches into the water supply, causing pollution.

garbles

decocts

elutriates

pasteurizes

fertilizes

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