suckled

Verb

suckle (third-person singular simple present suckles, present participle suckling, simple past and past participle suckled)

1. (transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.
   • […] the breasts of Hecuba
     When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier
     Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood
     At Grecian sword, contemning.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. (intransitive) To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.
   • But out of the woman’s great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, and she let it flow.1931, Pearl S. Buck, chapter 4, in The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, published 1944, page 35
3. (transitive) To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).
   • Buz attempted to suckle his left nipple.1982, Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace, New York: Avon, published 1983, page 60

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