单词 | suck |
释义 | suck I. transitive verb 1. a. (1) (2) < suck food particles from the tongue > (3) < suck the membrane from the throat, using a tube — Morris Fishbein > < the bee that sucks from mountain heath her honey — William Wordsworth > (4) < a vacuum pump sucks the steam out of the cloth — Werner Von Bergen & H.R.Mauersberger > < was nearly sucked under by a bog — British Book News > < the pull of gravity … would suck the blood away from his head — J.A.Michener > < the sun sucked up the rain … — H.L.Merillat > b. archaic < thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'st it from me — Shakespeare > c. < sucked away their specie reserves — S.E.Morison & H.S.Commager > < the bemused spinster sucking culture from galleries — H.S.Canby > < sucking strength all round for the savage struggle — Liam O'Flaherty > d. < all of us … have been sucked out of our native soil and scattered in every unlikely corner of the world — Michael Howard > — usually used with in or into < inadvertently sucked into the … intrigue — Martin Levin > < sucked into … jury duty — H.J.Laski > < found themselves … sucked in as the purveyors of gossip — Alan Barth > 2. a. (1) < suck an orange > specifically (2) < suck out the trachea — A.R.Koontz > < suck a lollipop > (3) < sucks his thumb > < sucking his empty pipe — Ellen Glasgow > b. < a body sucked and wasted by disease > 3. 4. intransitive verb 1. a. b. < the thirsty hot winds above suck constantly at the soil — W.P.Webb > c. d. < pensively … and slowly sucked at his pipe — Haldane Macfall > 2. < the tide drained and sucked at the mud flats — Nicholas Monsarrat > 3. < his pipe sucked hollowly — Walter Machen > < flanks sucked in and out, the long nose resting on his paws — Virginia Woolf > 4. < when they want votes … the candidates come sucking around — W.G.Hardy > • - suck dry - suck the blood of - suck the monkey - suck up to II. 1. a. < a child at suck > b. < the strong suck of the undertow > 2. obsolete 3. 4. 5. slang III. variant of sock IV. intransitive verb slang < charge cards suck — Reinhold Aman > < as a singer, the truth was, I sucked — Artie Ripp > |
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