0 present participle of suck --
1 to pull in liquid or air through your mouth without using your teeth, or to move the tongue and muscles of the mouth around something inside your mouth, often in order to dissolve it: --
2 If someone or something sucks, that person or thing is bad or unpleasant: --
Sucking insect herbivores, by contrast, exhibited a linear relationship between local and regional species richness, consistent with the proportional sampling model.
Failure to thrive, often due to difficulties in sucking, is reported during early infancy.
This emphasis on short-term goals resulted in 'the sucking of the substance out of what planners do'.
The permanent magnetic sucking mechanism is simple and safe; in addition, it also can work without an external power supply.
Sucking can also serve as an instrumental response.
People often suck a peppermint as a breath freshener.