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Suck

verb

(past & past part. sucked; pres. part. sucking)

1.

Draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth. "Suck on a straw" , "The baby sucked on the mother's breast"

2.

Draw something in by or as if by a vacuum.

3.

Attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.. Synonym: suck in.

4.

Be inadequate or objectionable.

5.

Provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation. Synonyms: blow, fellate, go down on.

6.

Take in, also metaphorically. Synonyms: absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up. "She drew strength from the minister's words"

7.

Give suck to. Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suckle, wet-nurse. "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"

noun

1.

The act of sucking. Synonyms: sucking, suction.

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"Suck" Quotes from Famous Books

... a pet calf about a week old which lived on water and a long rope. Dad told him to fetch it to see if it would suck. Joe fetched it, and it sucked ravenously at "Dummy's" flank, and joyfully wagged its tail. "Dummy" resented it. She plunged until the leg-rope parted again, when the calf got mixed up in her legs, and she trampled it in the ground. Joe took it away. Dad turned "Dummy" out and bailed ...

— On Our Selection • Steele Rudd

... are seemingly not exempt from fasting, on account of their age: for it is written (Joel 2:15): "Sanctify a fast," and further on (Joel 2:16): "Gather together the little ones, and them that suck the breasts." Much more therefore are all others bound to ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... fairly well in several unrelated subjects, and achieved preeminence in one, natural history. He had the all-round quality which shows more promise than does a propensity to light on a particular topic and suck it dry; but he had also power of concentration and thoroughness. As I have just said, he was a happy combination of the amateurish and intense. His habit of absorption became a by-word; for if he visited a, classmate's room and saw a book which ...

— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer

... like a bee, Doth suck his sweet; Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest His bed amidst my tender breast, My kisses are his daily feast; And yet he robs me of my rest? ...

— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... hands— Horrible agonized hands with bloody wrists!— Mercy! Poor little Private of the Guards, Who slowly raise your livid face to mine! Look not upon me with those glazing eyes! Why do you creep upon me through the gloom? God! 'Tis as though you strove to utter cries! Why do you all suck in a mighty breath? Why do you open horror-sated ...

— L'Aiglon • Edmond Rostand

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