Meaning of 'suck' (Webster Dictionary)
- The act of drawing with the mouth.
- That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically,
mikl drawn from the breast.
- A small draught.
- Juice; succulence.
- To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with
the mouth, or through a tube.
- To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the
young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
- To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
- To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and
tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush
in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting
the air.
- To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to
suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the
breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the
mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.
- To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking;
to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck
water from the ground.
- To draw or drain.
- To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
Meaning of 'suck' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
Example in sentence:- Mud was sucking at her feet
Meaning (2):
- take in, also metaphorically
Example in sentence:- She drew strength from the minister's words;
- The sponge absorbs water well
Meaning (3):
- draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
Example in sentence:- suck on a straw;
- suck the poison from the place where the snake bit;
- the baby sucked on the mother's breast
Meaning (4):
- attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
Example in sentence:- The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad
Meaning (5):
- give suck to
Example in sentence:- The wetnurse suckled the infant;
- You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places
Meaning (6):
- be inadequate or objectionable
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