leached

Verb

leach (third-person singular simple present leaches, present participle leaching, simple past and past participle leached)

1. (transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
   • Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.
2. (intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
   • The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To bleed; to seep.
   • A more generic geography, one where the suburb uneasily abuts the commercial and industrial, or leaches out to a nonurban frontier.2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19

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