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Synonyms for leach

The synonym for leach recorded in this bank is strip, in the sense "remove substances from by a percolating liquid". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb

The synonym for leach

stripverb, in the sense "remove substances from by a percolating liquid"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for leach.

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineChange

remove substances from by a percolating liquid

Heavy rain will leach the soil of its nutrients.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

strip

Same sentence, swapped: Heavy rain will strip the soil of its nutrients.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

percolate
tusk
ladle

Where leach turns up in the game

leach is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play leach

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so leach reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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