Suck

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1 English

1.1 Verb

1.1.1 Synonyms
1.1.2 Antonyms
1.1.3 Translations

English

Verb

To use the mouth to pull in liquid substances for ingestion or to perform a similar act on solid material without ingestion.
(colloquial) Term of general disparagement, indicating the subject or situation has no redeeming qualities.
(colloquial) With at, indicates a particular area of deficiency.
You're great at baseball, but you suck at golf.

Synonyms

(2, 3 above) To blow

Antonyms

(1 above) To blow
(2, 3 above) To rock

Translations

Finnish: imeä (1, 2); haista (2)
Slovak: (to suck a sweet) cmúľať inf., (to suck in one’s breath) vtiahnuť inf.

WordNet Definitions

one

1. sucking, suck, suction -- (the act of sucking).

five

1. suck -- (draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth; "suck the poison from the place where the snake bit"; "suck on a straw"; "the baby sucked on the mother's breast").
2. suck -- (draw something in by or as if by a vacuum; "Mud was sucking at her feet").
3. suck, suck in -- (attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.; "The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad").
4. absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up -- (take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words").
5. breastfeed, bottle-feed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck -- (give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places").

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