SUCK IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suck in mean? 

• SUCK IN (verb)
  The verb SUCK IN has 3 senses:

1. take up as if with a sponge

2. attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.

3. draw in as if by suction

  Familiarity information: SUCK IN used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUCK IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take up as if with a sponge

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

sop up; suck in; take in; take up

Hypernyms (to "suck in" is one way to...):

consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

suck; suck in

Context example:

The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad

Hypernyms (to "suck in" is one way to...):

absorb; take in (suck or take up or in)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Draw in as if by suction

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

draw in; suck in

Context example:

suck in your cheeks and stomach

Hypernyms (to "suck in" is one way to...):

core out; hollow; hollow out (remove the interior of)

Verb group:

aspirate; draw out; suck out (remove by suction)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For answers, Brandon turned to salps, gelatinous filter-feeding invertebrates that suck in water to eat and to propel themselves around the upper 6,500 feet of the ocean.

(Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, National Science Foundation)