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 →

2) To leach is when a substance slowly seeps out of something, like colour or chemicals from plastic. tree →

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 →
• Chemicals from the tip leached into the river. tree →
• Colour leached from the red sock into the white shirt. tree →
• Over years, salt leaches out of the rock. tree →
• Some plastics can leach chemicals into hot food. tree →
• The farmers added fertiliser because the soil was leached. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.