Meaning

9 senses
  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.

    saugen, nippeln

    соса́тьsosátʹ, вса́сыватьvsásyvatʹ, смокта́тьsmoktátʹ

    смокта́тиsmoktáty, сса́тиssáty

  2. (intransitive)To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.

    säugen

  3. (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

  4. (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

  5. (transitive)To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.

    lutschen

  6. (transitive)To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.

    ziehen

  7. (slang, transitive, vulgar)To perform fellatio.

    blasen

    сосатьsosatʹ

  8. (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

  9. (archaic, transitive)To inhale (air), to draw (breath).

Examples

284 sentences
  1. The baby is sucking his thumb.

  2. Our boat got sucked into a whirlpool.

    ruНашу лодку затянуло в водоворот. — marafon

    deUnser Boot wurde in einen Strudel gesaugt. — Yorwba

  3. I saw the baby sucking its thumb.

  4. Tom sucked his thumb until he was three.

  5. I got sucked in on a lot of phony deals.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
(transitive) to use the mouth to pull in (liquid, etc):
Русский
By meaning 3
(transitive) to use the mouth to pull in (liquid, etc):
slang, vulgar: to perform fellatio:
colloquial: term of general disparagement:
Deutsch
By meaning 7
(transitive) to use the mouth to pull in (liquid, etc):
(intransitive) to perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat:
to extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something:
to work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth:
to pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact:
slang, vulgar: to perform fellatio:
colloquial: term of general disparagement:

Origin

From Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Ger

From 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, sucked
Base formsuck · to suck
3rd person singularsucks
Present participlesucking
Past simplesucked
Past participlesucked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysuck
he, she, itsucks

Past simpleLesson

all personssucked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sucked
he, she, ithas sucked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill suck

Phrasal verbs

7 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

20 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

52 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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