leach

1. (transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.Examples: "Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil."; "[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground."transitive

2. (intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.Examples: "The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology."intransitive

3. (figurative, intransitive) To bleed; to seep.Examples: "A more generic geography, one where the suburb uneasily abuts the commercial and industrial, or leaches out to a nonurban frontier."; "There's a second half to each video. He remembers now. He watched it passively, over and over, and never saw it. Something comes through. It's been leaching into the background of the world this whole time, in plain sight, and he never saw it, and it's here now—"figurativelyintransitive