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GIVE SUCK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does give suck mean?
• GIVE SUCK (verb)
The verb GIVE SUCK has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GIVE SUCK used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give suck to
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
breastfeed; give suck; lactate; nurse; suck; suckle; wet-nurse
Context example:
You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places
Hypernyms (to "give suck" is one way to...):
Verb group:
suck (draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples
The nipple was about half the bigness of my head, and the hue both of that and the dug, so varied with spots, pimples, and freckles, that nothing could appear more nauseous: for I had a near sight of her, she sitting down, the more conveniently to give suck, and I standing on the table.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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