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undersuck

undersuck verb: to suck under.

Verb

undersuck (third-person singular simple present undersucks, present participle undersucking, simple past and past participle undersucked)

  1. (ambitransitive) To suck under.

Noun

undersuck (countable and uncountable, plural undersucks)

  1. The act of sucking under, usually generated by the force of moving water.
    • Eliot, however, held him up from drowning until one of the boats arrived on the scene, and they were dragged into it, but even then they were in peril from the greatness of the waves, and the undersuck, as they broke and retreated, which well-nigh swamped the boat and its contents, and it was with...1904, Arthur Christopher Thynne, Sir Bevill, page 21

Forms of undersuck

Verb
third-person singular presentundersucks
present participleundersucking
past participleundersucked
pastundersucked
Noun
pluralundersucks

Origin of undersuck

From under- + suck.

Questions about undersuck

What does undersuck mean?
Undersuck means to suck under.
What part of speech is undersuck?
Undersuck can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of undersuck?
The past tense of undersuck is undersucked.

Words near undersuck in the dictionary

  1. undersubscribed
  2. undersubscribes
  3. undersubscribing
  4. undersubscription
  5. undersubscriptions
  6. undersuck
  7. undersucked
  8. undersucking
  9. undersucks
  10. undersufficiency
  11. undersufficient

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