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Bloodsucker vs. Leech — What's the Difference?

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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