Suck
[sʌk]
Definition
(verb.) draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth; 'suck the poison from the place where the snake bit'; 'suck on a straw'; 'the baby sucked on the mother's breast'.
(verb.) draw something in by or as if by a vacuum; 'Mud was sucking at her feet'.
(verb.) be inadequate or objectionable; 'this sucks!'.
(verb.) attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.; 'The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad'.
Checker: Stan--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To draw or drain.
(v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
(v. i.) To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
(v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
(v. i.) To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
(n.) The act of drawing with the mouth.
(n.) That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.
(n.) A small draught.
(n.) Juice; succulence.
Inputed by Celia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Draw into the mouth.[2]. Draw milk from (with the mouth).
Edited by Harold
Definition
v.t. to draw in with the mouth: to draw milk from with the mouth: to imbibe: to drain.—v.i. to draw with the mouth: to draw the breast: to draw in.—n. act of sucking: milk drawn from the breast: (slang) a short drink esp. a dram of spirits.—n. Suck′er one who or that which sucks a sucking-pig: one of various kinds of fish: the organ by which an animal adheres to other bodies: the piston of a suction-pump: a shoot rising from a subterranean stem: a leather disc to the middle of which a string is attached used by children as a toy: a parasite toady sponge: a hard drinker: (U.S.) a native of Illinois.—v.t. to strip off suckers from: to provide with suckers.—n. Suck′et a sugar-plum.—adj. Suck′ing still nourished by milk: young and inexperienced.—ns. Suck′ing-bot′tle a bottle of milk used for infants as a substitute for the breast; Suck′ing-fish a name sometimes given to the Remora or Echineis which has a dorsal sucker and to other fishes which have a sucker formed by the union of the ventral fins as the Lumpsucker.—Suck in to draw in imbibe absorb (n. a fraud); Suck out to draw out with the mouth; Suck the monkey (see Monkey); Suck up to draw up into the mouth.
Typist: Rex
Examples
- And I suppose those gates would suck him down? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If she's mad with her, she eats one before her face, and doesn't offer even a suck. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Throw a stone in, and let's see the sand suck it down! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Suck him down, or swaller him up, he wouldn't get out,' said Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Foulon who told my baby it might suck grass, when these breasts were dry with want! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Not blaming me for standing on my own defence against a crew of plunderers, who could suck me dry by driblets? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In lifting himself to his feet, he burned the fingers of his right hand, and, as does a child, he immediately proceeded to suck those fingers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Light or heavy whatever goes into the Shivering Sand is sucked down, and seen no more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She sucked the blood: she said she'd drain my heart, said Mason. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The heat of the burning tallow melts more of the tallow near it, and this liquid fat is quickly sucked up into the burning wick. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- What we good stingy people don't like, is having our sixpences sucked away from us. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Everybody remarked the majesty of Jos and the knowing way in which he sipped, or rather sucked, the Johannisberger, which he ordered for dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They said if he had been with Custer that day he never would have let him be sucked in that way. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Well, they ought to be, but they've had a lawsuit for some years which has sucked the blood out of both of them, I fancy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Tom had sat upon the bed, swinging one leg and sucking his walking-stick with sufficient unconcern, until the visit had attained this stage. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Instantly a score of cruel fangs and keen talons were sunk into my flesh; cold, sucking lips fastened themselves upon my arteries. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- That all the cruts of Russian sucking swindlers should aid us now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Must you care for him as a sucking child? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is certain that insects and blood-sucking bats determine the existence of the larger naturalised quadrupeds in several parts of South America. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They were all eating, holding their chins close over the basin, tipping their heads back, sucking in the ends. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- At the back of the diving case is a recess and in it is installed a compact but powerful pump, which sucks from the feet of the suit all leakage and forces it at once outward. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typed by Gilda