suck
To use the mouth and lips to pull inTo use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
» The baby is sucking his thumb.
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9 senses(transitive)To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.
saugen, nippeln
соса́тьsosátʹ, вса́сыватьvsásyvatʹ, смокта́тьsmoktátʹ
смокта́тиsmoktáty, сса́тиssáty
(intransitive)To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
säugen
(transitive)To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to draw in milk.
saugen
соса́тьsosátʹ
draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
(transitive)To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
einsaugen, aufsaugen, extrahieren
draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
(transitive)To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
lutschen
(transitive)To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
ziehen
(slang, transitive, vulgar)To perform fellatio.
blasen
сосатьsosatʹ
(Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive, sometimes, stative, vulgar)To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
mies sein, zum Kotzen sein, Scheiße sein
отсто́йotstój
(archaic, transitive)To inhale (air), to draw (breath).
Examples
284 sentencesTranslations
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Origin
From Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West GerFrom Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūkan, from Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck, suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“to suck”). Cognate with Scots souke (“to suck”), obsolete Dutch zuiken (“to suck”), Limburgish zuken, zoeken (“to suck”). Akin also to Old English sūgan (“to suck”), West Frisian sûge, sûge (“to suck”), Dutch zuigen (“to suck”), German saugen (“to suck”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål suge (“to suck”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish suga (“to suck”), Icelandic sjúga (“to suck”), Latin sūgō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak.
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Forms
sucks, sucking, sucked, suckedPhrasal verbs
7 phrasal verbs- suck upбити чолом, вклонятисяTo absorb (fluid).
- suck inвсмоктувати, всмоктатиTo draw inward using suction. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, in.
- suck downвдихнути, вдихатиTo drink (or, more rarely, eat) all of something quickly.
- suck intoпритягнути, притягтиTo cause someone to become slowly more and more involved in a business or situation that is often not to that person's liking.
- suck offTo perform oral sex on.
- suck outUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, out.
- suck underTo pull (someone or something) under the surface of a body of water.
Synonyms
20 synonyms- be inadequate or objectionable:blowstink
- attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.:suck in
- take in, also metaphorically:absorbimbibesoak upsop upsuck updrawtake intake up
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation:fellateblowgo down on
- give suck to:breastfeedsucklenursewet-nurselactategive suck
Word family
52 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle