LEACHED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

leached

verb

past tense of leach

as in percolated

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as in flushed

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Talk about layoffs has percolated internally since a September 18 memo by Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer Horacio Gutierrez.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
Why Chelsea ceded so much possession to Brighton is more complex — and an issue that has percolated beneath the surface for most of the BlueCo era.

— Jon Mackenzie, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of percolated

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Not that Bieber needs much assistance, with dewy skin and softly flushed cheeks becoming central to the Rhode universe.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2026
After two straight incompletions, Nichols was flushed from the pocket on third down and was stripped of the ball by Harding's Kaleb Walker.

— Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of flushed

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Just off Piccadilly and steps from Green Park, the brand’s nature-first mentality translates into living green walls, reclaimed timber, raw stone, and filtered water taps—sustainability being a point of emphasis here.

— Katharine Sohn, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2026
As the early show ended, attendees filtered out of the church as guests waiting in line eagerly anticipated their turn in the nave.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of filtered

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The rooms are spacious, comfortable, immaculately pressed and cleaned, and blissfully quiet.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Culver City voted last month to set rules around robotaxi fleet services that dictate where and when the vehicles can be charged, stored and cleaned.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of cleaned

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Nassar is one of more than 20,000 individuals whose names were recently purged from the Michigan State Police database.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Voting rights experts have expressed concern that misuse of the data could lead to legitimate voters being purged from rolls.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of purged

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The path of regulation In 2022, the Congressional Budget Office distilled decades of health care policy fights into a single PowerPoint slide.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
Seven decades after Elia Kazan’s film adaptation, his granddaughter Zoe Kazan has distilled her interpretation of Steinbeck’s multigenerational saga, which is deeply structured around biblical allusions, into a seven-episode series for Netflix.

— Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of distilled

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