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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After three minutes, the robot is flushed out and ready for the next cleaning cycle.

— John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
In addition to the chickens, Frank flushed his shoes down one of the toilets, Dennis and Dee kept blowing fuses with the scheme’s need for a power-sucking vacuum sealer, and the basement was choked with carbon monoxide.

— Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026

Definition of flushed

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Even when Putin purged Russia’s defense ministry for corruption, including much of Shoigu’s own personal network, Putin transferred Shoigu to a weighty role in the Security Council rather than disempower him.

— Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
For many, that pales in comparison to the 60 Minutes bloodbath in June that saw correspondents Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega purged, joined by executive producer Tanya Simon and others.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of purged

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In this case, the whiskey was distilled from January to June of 2015, and aged for a full 11 years in new American oak barrels.

— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2026
Viewers, including any lawmakers who may have seen it, are invited into an idealized and privileged environment, where the complexity of the choice to die is aesthetically contained and emotionally distilled.

— Vanessa Rampton, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of distilled

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This gas will then be purified and concentrated, ready for export to local gas networks as what is termed renewable natural gas (RNG).

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
And here, the researchers simply purified the translation machinery and supplied it to the SpudCells.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026

Definition of purified

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