sucking

Verb

suck (third-person singular simple present sucks, present participle sucking, simple past and past participle sucked)

1. (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
   • The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.
2. (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
3. (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to draw in milk.
4. (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
   • That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i

   Synonyms:

   aspirate

5. (archaic, transitive) To inhale (air), to draw (breath).
   • And ſince we all haue ſuckt on[e] wholſome aire, / And with the ſame proportion of Elements, / Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled, / Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
6. (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.

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