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oversucking

oversucking is the present participle of oversuck.

Meaning of oversuck

Verb

oversuck (third-person singular simple present oversucks, present participle oversucking, simple past and past participle oversucked)

  1. (ambitransitive) To suck excessively (all senses); suck too much.
    • The like little fatigue takes place in children nourished at the breast; and by this mean it is, that infants, especially when very young, are not so apt to oversuck, as they are to be overfed by the boat or the spoon; […]1805, Michael Underwood (M.D.), A treatise on the disorders of childhood, and management of Disorders from the Birth

Questions about oversucking

What is oversucking the present participle of?
Oversucking is the present participle of oversuck.

Words near oversucking in the dictionary

  1. oversubtleties
  2. oversubtlety
  3. oversubtly
  4. oversuck
  5. oversucked
  6. oversucking
  7. oversucks
  8. oversuds
  9. oversudsed
  10. oversudses
  11. oversudsing

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