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say it: suhk
suck is a verb and noun meaning "draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth". It is pronounced /ˈsʌk/ — suhk. It carries 8 recorded senses.
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”
attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
“The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad”
provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
the act of sucking
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for suck come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.