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{
"term": "suck",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "suck",
"heSheIt": "sucks"
},
"pastSimple": "sucked",
"pastParticiple": "sucked",
"ingForm": "sucking"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to take liquid, air, etc. into your mouth by using the muscles of your lips",
"sensetop": "suck something (+ adv./prep.)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to suck the juice from an orange"
},
{
"text": "She was noisily sucking up milk through a straw."
},
{
"text": "He sucked the blood from a cut on his finger."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["noisily", "away", "in"],
"preposition": ["at", "from", "on"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to keep something in your mouth and pull on it with your lips and tongue",
"sensetop": "suck at/on somethingsuck something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The baby sucked at its mother's breast.",
"contextForm": "suck at/on something"
},
{
"text": "He sucked at the wound on his hand."
},
{
"text": "She sucked on a mint."
},
{
"text": "She sucked a mint.",
"contextForm": "suck something"
},
{
"text": "Stop sucking your thumb!"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["noisily", "away", "in"],
"preposition": ["at", "from", "on"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to take liquid, air, etc. out of something",
"sensetop": "suck something + adv./prep.suck something + adj.",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The pump sucks air out through the valve.",
"contextForm": "suck something + adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.",
"contextForm": "suck something + adj."
},
{
"text": "The machine sucks up mud and stones from the bottom of the pond."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["noisily", "away", "in"],
"preposition": ["at", "from", "on"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to pull somebody/something with great force in a particular direction",
"sensetop": "suck somebody/something + adv./prep.",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The canoe was sucked down into the whirlpool."
},
{
"text": "The mud had sucked him in up to his waist."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["noisily", "away", "in"],
"preposition": ["at", "from", "on"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "used to say that something is very bad",
"labels": "(slang)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Their new album sucks."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to get from somebody/something all the money, help, information, etc. they have, usually giving nothing in return",
"examples": [
{
"text": "By earning millions from racing and giving pennies back, the bookmakers are sucking the sport dry."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that the only way to know if something is suitable is to try it",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to accept something bad and deal with it well, controlling your emotions",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to tell or show somebody how to do something that they can already do well, and probably better than you can",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/sʌk/",
"audio": "su/suck/suck__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/sʌks/",
"audio": "su/suck/sucks__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/sʌkt/",
"audio": "su/suck/sucked__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsʌkɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/suck/sucking__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/sʌk/",
"audio": "su/suck/suck__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/sʌks/",
"audio": "su/suck/sucks__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/sʌkt/",
"audio": "su/suck/sucked__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsʌkɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/suck/sucking__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English sūcan (verb), from an Indo-European imitative root; related to soak."
}