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insuck

insuck verb: to suck in; inhale; absorb; soak up.

Verb

insuck (third-person singular simple present insucks, present participle insucking, simple past and past participle insucked)

  1. (transitive) To suck in; inhale; absorb; soak up.
    • The first course was soup, and as the younger used his spoon, his lips reached forth to meet it, at the same time he insucked his breath, which made a particular noise.1905, William Baucke, Where the white man treads
    • [...] a wavering or trembling of the haypiles as if the hay itself took breath: insucks & outflows, faint wave motions rippling across low flat haystack is the giveaway [...]1999, The Atlantic monthly, volume 284

Noun

insuck (plural insucks)

  1. The act or process of sucking in; absorption.
    • The refill, the tamping down with finger, the match lit, the quick insucks, the very flushed face very serious now, sound of sucking in air, bubbling of pipe, waving of match to extinguish, puffing out clouds of smoke, rolling over on [...]2004, Aidan Higgins, A bestiary
    • The timing of the insuck of semen in relation to sperm capacitation (the process that renders sperm capable of fertilizing an egg) has been discussed critically by Levin (2002).2006, Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer, Beverly Whipple, The science of orgasm

Forms of insuck

Verb
third-person singular presentinsucks
present participleinsucking
past participleinsucked
pastinsucked
Noun
pluralinsucks

Origin of insuck

From Middle English insouken, equivalent to in- + suck. Cognate with Saterland Frisian iensuge (“to suck in, absorb”), West Frisian ynsûge (“to suck in”), Dutch inzuigen (“to suck in”), German Low German insugen (“to suck in, soak up”), German einsaugen (“suck in, absorb, soak up”), Swedish insuga (“to inhale, suck in, pick up”), Icelandic innsjúga (“to suck in”).

Questions about insuck

What does insuck mean?
Insuck means to suck in; inhale; absorb; soak up.
What part of speech is insuck?
Insuck can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of insuck?
The past tense of insuck is insucked.

Words near insuck in the dictionary

  1. insubstantive
  2. insubvertible
  3. insuccation
  4. insuccations
  5. insuccess
  6. insuck
  7. insucked
  8. insucken
  9. insuckens
  10. insucking
  11. insuckings

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