LEACHED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

leached

verb

past tense of leach

as in percolated

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Efforts to ban members of Congress from owning or trading individual stock have percolated for years, but have repeatedly fallen short.

— Luke Fountain,Justin Papp, CNBC, 3 July 2026
Other records from the district and the state describe how most of the water percolated into the ground, evaporated into hot, dry air, or drained off fields into scrubland and desert.

— Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026

Definition of percolated

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Being patient gives the enzymes time to break the bond between the stain and the fibers, so the stain can be flushed away during the laundry cycle.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
Suárez’s cross sailed into the box and landed right at the feet of John Arias, who then flushed it past the Ghana goalkeeper for the early goal.

— Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 3 July 2026

Definition of flushed

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Vogue is committed to reporting and riffing on the global fashion conversation—always filtered through the lens of culture and what’s happening in the world at large.

— Vogue, Vogue, 14 July 2026
The shepherd observed as Underwood boiled and stirred and filtered his brew.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

Definition of filtered

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On Friday, the health department released a list of 31 buildings where the bacteria was detected, and said 19 of them had already drained, cleaned and disinfected their cooling towers.

— Katie Houlis, CBS News, 12 July 2026
Tolbert warns that food storage containers with lids should be cleaned regularly to prevent contamination from dust mites and other parasites, especially before refilling.

— Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026

Definition of cleaned

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Doctors, following accepted practice, would likely have bled or purged an ill person for humoral balance.

— Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Among those purged or forced to retire have been a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of naval operations and the head of the Defense Health Agency.

— Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026

Definition of purged

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The primary reason for Golden State’s allure to the former Laker could be distilled into two names.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
The spirit was fermented in earthen pits and distilled, a process that took a year across eight fermentations and seven distillations.

— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 29 June 2026

Definition of distilled

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And here, the researchers simply purified the translation machinery and supplied it to the SpudCells.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
The amount may be infinitesimal—white sugar and bottled water are sometimes purified with charred animal bones, for instance—but some hypersensitive alpha-gal patients avoid the risk anyway.

— Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

Definition of purified

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Keren’s approach—refined through dozens of iterations, tested on skin, and developed with global precision via perfumer networks—is deeply personal and culturally attuned.

— Tanya Akim, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Every season of Industry has refined the series, asked more of its stars, and accurately spit at some of our culture’s biggest pain points.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2026

Definition of refined

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