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Xem thêm: sucking, suction, suck in, absorb, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up, breastfeed, bottle-feed, suckle, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck
suck verb
ADV. noisily She was noisily sucking up milk through a straw. | away, in, out, up She sucked away on her thumb. He cut the orange in half and sucked out the juice.
PREP. at He sucked at the wound on his hand. | from The machine sucks up mud and stones from the bottom of the pond. | into, on The baby sucked on her bottle. | out of, through
v.
suck the poison from the place where the snake bit
suck on a straw
the baby sucked on the mother's breast
Mud was sucking at her feet
The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad
The sponge absorbs water well
She drew strength from the minister's words
The wetnurse suckled the infant
You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places