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Synonyms for suck

Most common

absorb soak up sop up breast-feed suckle stink parasitize

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

2. Give suck

suckle, breast-feed, nurse, lactate, give suck dated

3. Stink

stink, blow

4. Fellate

go down on informal, fellate

Noun

1. Sook — A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby…

sook, sooky baby

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).

    The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.

  2. v. 2

    To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.

  3. v. 3

    To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to draw in milk.

  4. n. 1

    A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.

Forms

Plural
sucks → sooks, suctions, take-ups…
Past participle
sucked
e.g. sucked → absorbed, drawn, imbibed, suckled…

Example sentences

  • absorb The glass can't absorb water, but the curtain can.
  • suckle She didn't suckle her daughter today.
  • stink Guests are like fish - after three days they stink.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
suckrising
absorbsteady
sucklerising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
draw1, blow1, sook
5 letters
nurse1, stink1
6 letters
absorb2, imbibe2, suckle2
7 letters
suction2, lactate2, fellate
8 letters
aspirate3
10 letters
parasitize, parasitise

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (absorb2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
sucer
Italiano
succhiare
Español
chupar
Deutsch
lutschen
Català
xuclar