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SUCKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of sucking
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sucking" is a kind of...):
consumption; ingestion; intake; uptake (the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating))
Derivation:
suck (draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb suck
Context examples:
Dubbed Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short), the gravity- and light-sucking monster weighs as much as four million Suns.
(Astronomers Piece Together First Image of Black Hole, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It's nothing but limes now, for everyone is sucking them in their desks in schooltime, and trading them off for pencils, bead rings, paper dolls, or something else, at recess.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I assure you that our most pan-Germanic Junker is a sucking dove in his feelings towards England as compared with a real bitter Irish-American.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
However, the coconut oil-derived free fatty acid mixture—lauric acid, capric acid and caprylic acid as well as their corresponding methyl esters—provides strong repellency against blood-sucking insects.
(Coconut Oil Compounds Repel Insects Better than DEET, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
I explained to Traddles that there was a difficulty in keeping King Charles the First out of Mr. Dick's manuscripts; Mr. Dick in the meanwhile looking very deferentially and seriously at Traddles, and sucking his thumb.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She might have been unconsciously sucking in the sad poison, while a sharer of his conversation with her friend; and from the best, the purest of motives, might now be denying herself this visit to Ireland, and resolving to divide herself effectually from him and his connexions by soon beginning her career of laborious duty.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I heard Dick begin to rise, and then someone seemingly stopped him, and the voice of Hands exclaimed, “Oh, stow that! Don't you get sucking of that bilge, John. Let's have a go of the rum.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
"Come in," Messner called, in a voice muffled because at the moment he was sucking loose a fragment of ice from its anchorage on his upper lip.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
"Iss!" said Demi the perjured, blissfully sucking his sugar, and regarding his first attempt as eminently successful.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He was squatting in the moss, a bone in his mouth, sucking at the shreds of life that still dyed it faintly pink.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
