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Sucking

noun

1.

The act of sucking. Synonyms: suck, suction.

Suck

verb

(past & past part. sucked; pres. part. sucking)

1.

Draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth. "Suck on a straw" , "The baby sucked on the mother's breast"

2.

Draw something in by or as if by a vacuum.

3.

Attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.. Synonym: suck in.

4.

Be inadequate or objectionable.

5.

Provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation. Synonyms: blow, fellate, go down on.

6.

Take in, also metaphorically. Synonyms: absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up. "She drew strength from the minister's words"

7.

Give suck to. Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suckle, wet-nurse. "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"

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"Sucking" Quotes from Famous Books

... burn out to the ash And leave no heat and flame upon my dust For witness where a man's heart was burnt up. For all Christ's work this Venus is not quelled, But reddens at the mouth with blood of men, Sucking between small teeth the sap o' the veins, Dabbling with death her little tender lips— A bitter beauty, poisonous-pearled mouth. I am not fit to live but for love's sake, So I were best die shortly. Ah, fair love, Fair fearful Venus made of deadly foam, I shall escape you somehow with my death— ...

— Chastelard, a Tragedy • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... would any of them attempt to touch it until he had drank. He now breathed more freely, and the palpitation ceased; but finding himself still more thirsty after drinking, he abstained from water, and moistened his mouth from time to time by sucking the perspiration from his ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... no wonder that the typical American maker of books becomes a timorous and ineffective fellow, whose work tends inevitably toward a feeble superficiality. Sucking in the Puritan spirit with the very air he breathes, and perhaps burdened inwardly with an inheritance of the actual Puritan stupidity, he is further kept upon the straight path of chemical purity by the very real perils that I have just rehearsed. The result is a literature ...

— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken

... put to death by various methods; the most cruel being usually preferred. Women were murdered without the least regard to their sex; and the persecutors even went so far as to cut off the heads of sucking babes, and fasten them to the ...

— Fox's Book of Martyrs - Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs • John Fox

... not a little: yet still the meaning of the affair remained to him a mystery. By way of answer, he fell to sucking at his pipe with such vehemence that at length the pipe began to gurgle like a bassoon. It was as though he had been seeking of it inspiration in the present unheard-of juncture. But the pipe only gurgled, et ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

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