Sucking: alternatives and connections

The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.

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The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To take into the hand; to take up; to help.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

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To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

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To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.