leech

If neglected, any system can become a host upon which all other systems will leech.

To live with anxiety is to live with a leech that saps you of your energy, confidence, and chutzpah.

Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) and Branson (Allen Leech) got married and were happy.

Verily, there is not a leech that sucks out the blood from the body more than these little ships do this camp of men.

Leech, the caricaturist,—one of the most absurdly over-rated men of this century,—was at Charterhouse from 1825 to 1831.

The old lady overhead has a shrewd tongue, but she is a marvellous good leech.

It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.

The viper says to the leech, ‘Why do people invite your bite, and flee from mine?’