leech
noun
any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
has leeched
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present perfectof leech (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Scarfaced SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny, daredevil paratrooper who snatched Mussolini from his mountain prison in 1943, and dressed his killers in U.S. uniforms during the Bulge breakthrough, has leeched on to the Spanish military set.
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