Suck
Suck (suk) , transitive verb
[Old English suken, souken, Anglo-Saxon sūcan, sūgan; akin to Dutch zuigen, German saugen, Old High German sūgan, Icelandic sūga, sjūga, Swedish suga, Danish suge, Latin sugere. Compare Honeysuckle, Soak, Succulent, Suction.]
1.
To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.
2.
To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.
3.
To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
4.
To draw or drain.
Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe.
5.
To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn.
Collocations (3)
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; to draw up by suction or absorption.
Suck , intransitive verb
1.
To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I.
2.
To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
3.
To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
The crown had sucked too hard, and now, being full, was like to draw less.
4.
To be objectionable, of very poor quality, or offensive; as, telemarketing calls really suck; he's a good actor, but his singing sucks. [Colloquial]
Suck , noun
1.
The act of drawing with the mouth.
2.
That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast. — Shakespeare
3.
A small draught. [Colloquial] — Massinger
4.
Juice; succulence. [Obsolete]