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UK
/sˈʌk/
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[ US /ˈsək/ ]
[ US /ˈsək/ ]
VERB
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take in, also metaphorically
She drew strength from the minister's words
The sponge absorbs water well -
be inadequate or objectionable
this sucks!
this blows! -
draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
the baby sucked on the mother's breast
suck on a straw
suck the poison from the place where the snake bit -
draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
Mud was sucking at her feet -
give suck to
The wetnurse suckled the infant
You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places - provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
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attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad
NOUN
- the act of sucking
How To Use suck In A Sentence
- Some spring from immediately below the earth, and may more properly be termed suckers; the others grow on the visible part of the stem or caudex, often close to the oldest leaves; these should be cut off with a sharp knife, in early summer, and if they have a little of the parent bark attached to them all the better. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
- I dont know what these people keep talking about I bought sham wow and it SUCKS it just pushed the liquid around and did NOT absorb it at all, its a piece of crap use real car shammies, paper towels, sponges, or regular dishrags and you'd get way better results. Undefined
- The six-inch white plastic stick uses a battery-powered atomiser to create realistic puffs of "smoke," while the tip glows red with each suck. The Cigarette That’s Legal Indoors | Impact Lab
- The six tapestries she planted come alive with interwoven threads of color and texture from golden boxleaf honeysuckle, lavender, hebe, leatherleaf sedge, and Bowles' golden sedge bordered by dwarf boxwood.
- It's good for you to suck in fresh shore air.
- He is always telling the director how to run the business; that's like teaching one's grandmother how to suck eggs.
- Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
- The fluid was sucked from his lungs.
- That's the forecast for the forecastable future -- showers and thundershowers as the warm and sun suck moisture out of our sodden lebensraum and turn it back into clouds. Showers
- The rest of the cast (including Elias, whom I like normally) sucked green eggs and hammed it up like the subject was a bad joke. Rabid Rewind: Defendor