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UK
/lˈiːtʃ/
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[ US /ˈɫitʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫitʃ/ ]
NOUN
- the process of leaching
VERB
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remove substances from by a percolating liquid
leach the soil - cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate
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permeate or penetrate gradually
the fertilizer leached into the ground
How To Use leach In A Sentence
- Humus being highly colloidal, has the ability to adsorb and retain for future plant use many of the ions such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphates and ammonia which might be leached from the soil and lost in drainage.
- There is a great deal of controversy over the merits of bleached and unbleached flour.
- There are six of them in total, one hundred and fifty foot tall totemic spires of Growth Bone, Calcine, and Blossom Glass, bedecked on all sides with terraces, platforms and loggias, sun-bleached and standing to attention like nine pins spilt upon the desert or deep sea hydro-thermal vents rising from unfathomed depths. Watchman: Babel Series Part One | SciFi UK Review
- How much bleach and chemicals? Times, Sunday Times
- This nascent bleach can also react with primary or secondary amines to form longer lasting, antimicrobial chloramines.
- The water seal technology is used to solve the problem of the collection rate of the mother liquid in situ leach mining of the rare earth mineral.
- I could still detect the faint smell of bleach.
- She was forced to scrub floors with bleach. The Sun
- The cannon was placed in a large waterproof crate of fresh water to leach out the salts, which, if untreated, would have eventually corroded the metal.
- Photograph by Alexandre Bailhache Pleached hornbeam arches and chestnut pergolas create verdant alleys connecting one garden room to the next and provide shaded, secluded walks. Paradise Regained