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Synonyms for blood-sucker

  • noun

Most common

vampire sucker parasite leech sponge changeable lizard gadfly exploiter

All synonyms

Noun

sucker, leech, vampire, parasite, sponge, changeable lizard, free-loader, exploiter, gadfly, scrounger, extortioner, hirudinean, scrounge, sponger

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    An animal or insect that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a leech, mosquito etc.

Related words

Other spellings
bloodsucker

Forms

Plural
blood-suckers → suckers, leeches, vampires, parasites…

Example sentences

  • vampire He works as a teacher, but actually he's a vampire.
  • sucker As you might already know, I am a sucker for old books.
  • parasite The parasite started eating Stefan from the inside.
  • leech The earthworm and the leech are both segmented worms.
  • sponge Tom threw a soaking wet sponge at me at school today.

By length

5 letters
leech1
6 letters
sucker2, sponge1, gadfly2
7 letters
vampire2, sponger
8 letters
parasite3, scrounge1
9 letters
exploiter, scrounger
10 letters
hirudinean
11 letters
extortioner

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sucker2 = 2 syllables).