Bloodsucker vs. Leech — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bloodsucker and Leech
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Bloodsucker
An animal, such as a leech, that sucks blood.
Leech
Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the oligochaetes, which include the earthworm, and like them have soft, muscular, segmented bodies that can lengthen and contract.
Bloodsucker
An extortionist or a blackmailer.
Leech
Any of various chiefly aquatic carnivorous or bloodsucking annelid worms of the class (or subclass) Hirudinea, of which one species (Hirudo medicinalis) was formerly widely used by physicians for therapeutic bloodletting.
Bloodsucker
A person who is intrusively or overly dependent upon another; a parasite.
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Leech
One that preys on or clings to another; a parasite.
Bloodsucker
An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
Leech
(Archaic) A physician.
Bloodsucker
(by extension) Any parasite.
Leech
Either vertical edge of a square sail.
Bloodsucker
(by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
Leech
The after edge of a fore-and-aft sail.
Bloodsucker
A vampire.
Leech
To bleed with leeches.
Bloodsucker
The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).
Leech
To drain the essence or exhaust the resources of.
Bloodsucker
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.
Leech
To attach oneself to another in the manner of a leech.
Bloodsucker
One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.
Leech
An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
Bloodsucker
A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.
Leech
(figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
Bloodsucker
Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
Leech
A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
Leech
(archaic) A physician.
Leech
(Germanic paganism) A healer.
Leech
(nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.
Leech
(nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.
Leech
To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
Leech
To drain (resources) without giving back.
Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.
Leech
To treat, cure or heal.
Leech
See 2d Leach.
Leech
The border or edge at the side of a sail.
Leech
A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
Leech, heal thyself.
Leech
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
A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
Leech
To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
Leech
To bleed by the use of leeches.
Leech
Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
Leech
A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
Leech
Draw blood;
In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment
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