GIVE SUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does give suck mean? 

• GIVE SUCK (verb)
  The verb GIVE SUCK has 1 sense:

1. give suck to

  Familiarity information: GIVE SUCK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIVE SUCK (verb)

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...):

feed; give (give food 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)