The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LEACH which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Drain, as from soil crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LEACH | 100 % | 5 |
Why may LEACH be the right solution?
The word "leach" means to drain or filter liquid through a porous substance. In the context of soil, leaching refers to the process of water carrying away soluble nutrients or minerals from the soil. Therefore, "drain, as from soil" is a fitting clue for the answer "leach".
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Crossword Answer definitions
LEACH noun- A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
- A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
- A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
- An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
- A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
- A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
- A physician.
- (Heathenry) A healer.
- The vertical edge of a square sail.
- The aft edge of a triangular sail.
- To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
- To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
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