suckle

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verb

1. suck milk from the mother's breasts
- the infant was suckling happily
• Hypernyms:
feed, eat
• Entailment:
drink, imbibe
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- The animals suckle
2. give suck to
- The wetnurse suckled the infant
- You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places
• Syn:
breastfeed, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck
• Ant:
bottlefeed (for: breastfeed)
• Derivationally related forms:
lactation (for: lactate), nurse (for: nurse), nursing (for: nurse), nursery (for: nurse), suck (for: suck), sucker (for: suck)
• Hypernyms:
feed, give
• Verb Group:
suck
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  breastfeed, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck