leached

2 definitions found

leached - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Leach \Leach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leached; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Leaching.] [Written also leech and letch.]
     1. To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to
        the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to
        leach ashes or coffee.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out
        alkali from ashes.
        [1913 Webster]

leached - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "leached":
     acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, desert, desolate,
     drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt,
     gelded, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless,
     jejune, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive,
     nonprolific, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry, teemless,
     uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive,
     unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted,
     without issue