Synonyms: suck, sucking, suction
Definition: the act of sucking
Similar words: uptake, consumption, ingestion, intake
Definition: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Synonyms: suck
Definition: draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
Usage: suck the poison from the place where the snake bit; suck on a straw; the baby sucked on the mother's breast
Definition: take in liquids
Usage: The patient must drink several liters each day; The children like to drink soda
Synonyms: lactate, wet-nurse, breastfeed, suck, suckle, nurse, give suck
Definition: give suck to
Usage: The wetnurse suckled the infant; You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places
Definition: give food to
Usage: Feed the starving children in India; don't give the child this tough meat
Synonyms: suck
Definition: draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
Usage: Mud was sucking at her feet
Definition: take liquid out of a container or well
Usage: She drew water from the barrel
Synonyms: suck, blow, go down on, fellate
Definition: provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
Similar words: stimulate, stir, excite
Definition: stir feelings in
Usage: stimulate my appetite; excite the audience; stir emotions
Synonyms: suck
Definition: be inadequate or objectionable
Usage: this sucks!
Similar words: be
Definition: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
Usage: John is rich; This is not a good answer
Definition: attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
Usage: The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad
Similar words: absorb, take in
Definition: suck or take up or in
Usage: A black star absorbs all matter