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KJV Dictionary Definition: suck

suck

SUCK, v.t. L. sugo.

1. To draw with the mouth; to draw out, as a liquid from a cask, or milk from the breast; to draw into the mouth. To suck is to exhaust the air of the mouth or of a tube; the fluid then rushes into the mouth or tube by means of the pressure of the surrounding air.

2. To draw milk from with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother or dam, or the breast.

3. To draw into the mouth; to imbibe; as, to suck in air; to suck the juice of plants.

4. To draw or drain.

Old ocean suck'd through the porous globe.

5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to absorb.

6. To inhale.

To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb.

To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction.

To suck up, to draw into the mouth.

SUCK, v.i. To draw by exhausting the air, as with the mouth, or with a tube.

1. To draw the breast; as, a child, or the young of any animal, is first nourished by sucking.

2. To draw in; to imbibe.

SUCK, n. The act of drawing with the mouth.

1. Milk drawn from the breast by the mouth.

sucked

SUCK'ED, pp. Drawn with the mouth, or with an instrument that exhausts the air; imbibed; absorbed.

sucking

SUCK'ING, ppr. Drawing with the mouth or with an instrument; imbibing; absorbing.