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insucking

insucking noun: a sucking inward.

Noun

insucking (plural insuckings)

  1. A sucking inward.
    • Yoritomo met their smiles and kowtowings and noisy insuckings of breath with an austere dignity that I took pains to imitate.1910, Robert Ames Bennet, The Shogun's Daughter
    • Her initial response to this was a retropulsion or insucking of the tongue, so severe that speech was impossible, and she was in continual danger of swallowing her tongue.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Forms of insucking

pluralinsuckings

Origin of insucking

From in + sucking.

Questions about insucking

What does insucking mean?
Insucking means a sucking inward.
What part of speech is insucking?
Insucking is a noun.
What is the plural of insucking?
The plural of insucking is insuckings.

Words near insucking in the dictionary

  1. insuccess
  2. insuck
  3. insucked
  4. insucken
  5. insuckens
  6. insucking
  7. insuckings
  8. insucks
  9. insudate
  10. insudates
  11. insudation

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