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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 suck /ˈsʌk/
 (vt.)吸,吮,吸入,吮吸,吸收,獲得(vi.)吸,吸奶吸,吸入,吮吸

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 suck /ˈsək/ 及物動詞
 吮,吸

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Suck v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sucked p. pr. & vb. n. Sucking.]
 1. 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 pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.
 2. To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.
 3. To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
 4. To draw or drain.
    Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe.   --Thomson.
 5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
    As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn.   --Dryden.
 To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb.
 To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction.
 To suck up, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction or absorption.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Suck, v. i.
 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
    Where the bee sucks, there suck I.   --Shak.
 2. To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
 3. To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
    The crown had sucked too hard, and now, being full, was like to draw less.   --Bacon.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Suck, n.
 1. The act of drawing with the mouth.
 2. That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.
 3. A small draught. [Colloq.]
 4. Juice; succulence. [Obs.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 suck
      n : the act of sucking [syn: sucking, suction]
      v 1: draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the
           mouth; "suck the poison from the place where the snake
           bit"; "suck on a straw"; "the baby sucked on the
           mother's breast"
      2: draw something in by or as if by a vacuum; "Mud was sucking
         at her feet"
      3: attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.; "The
         current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from
         abroad" [syn: suck in]
      4: take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water
         well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words" [syn:
          absorb, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw,
          take in, take up]
      5: give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot
         nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed,
          bottle-feed, suckle, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate,
          give suck] [ant: bottlefeed]