The old lady had found Rachel trying to suckle milk from her dead mother’s cold, empty teat.
Source: tatoeba (2059457)
Suckle
//ˈsʌk.əl//
Synonyms for "suckle" (74 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (37)
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3 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
1 entriesentails
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
86 translations across 44 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- θηλάζω verb (to give suck to)
- θηλάζω verb (to nurse; to suck)
Arabic
3 entries- رضع verb (to give suck to)
- رَضَّعَ verb (to give suck to)
- رَضِعَ verb (to nurse; to suck)
Aromanian
1 entries- alãptedz verb (to give suck to)
Bulgarian
2 entries- бозая verb (to nurse; to suck)
- кърмя verb (to give suck to)
Catalan
1 entries- alletar verb (to give suck to)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 哺乳 verb (to give suck to)
- 母乳餵養 /母乳喂养 verb (to give suck to)
- 餵奶 /喂奶 verb (to give suck to)
Czech
1 entries- kojit verb (to give suck to)
Dutch
2 entries- zogen verb (to give suck to)
- zuigen verb (to nurse; to suck)
Esperanto
1 entries- mamnutri verb (to give suck to)
Finnish
2 entries- imettää verb (to give suck to)
- imeä verb (to nurse; to suck)
French
2 entries- allaiter verb (to give suck to)
- téter verb (to nurse; to suck)
Friulian
1 entries- latâ verb (to give suck to)
German
3 entries- saugen verb (to nurse; to suck)
- stillen verb (to give suck to)
- säugen verb (to give suck to)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌳𐌰𐌳𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to give suck to)
Greek
3 entries- βυζαίνω verb (to nurse; to suck)
- θηλάζω verb (to give suck to)
- θηλάζω verb (to nurse; to suck)
Hebrew
2 entries- הֵינִיק verb (to give suck to)
- יָנַק verb (to nurse; to suck)
Hungarian
1 entries- szoptat verb (to give suck to)
Ido
2 entries- alaktar verb (to give suck to)
- mamsugar verb (to give suck to)
Indonesian
2 entries- menyusu verb (to nurse; to suck)
- menyusui verb (to give suck to)
Irish
2 entries- diúl verb (to nurse; to suck)
- tál verb (to give suck to)
Italian
2 entries- allattare verb (to give suck to)
- poppare verb (to nurse; to suck)
Japanese
1 entries- 授乳する verb (to give suck to)
Khmer
1 entries- បំបៅ verb (to give suck to)
Ladino
1 entries- alechar verb (to give suck to)
Latin
2 entries- nūtriō verb (to give suck to)
- nūtriō verb (to nurse; to suck)
Latvian
2 entries- zīdīt verb (to give suck to)
- zīst verb (to nurse; to suck)
Macedonian
2 entries- дои verb (to give suck to)
- дои verb (to nurse; to suck)
Māori
3 entries- whakangote verb (to give suck to)
- whakangotengote verb (to give suck to)
- whāngote verb (to nurse; to suck)
Occitan
4 entries- alachar verb (to give suck to)
- alaitar verb (to give suck to)
- atessar verb (to give suck to)
- far popar verb (to give suck to)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- доити verb (to give suck to)
Old Irish
1 entries- ibid verb (to nurse; to suck)
Polish
2 entries- karmić mlekiem verb (to give suck to)
- wykarmić verb (to give suck to)
Portuguese
2 entries- amamentar verb (to give suck to)
- mamar verb (to nurse; to suck)
Romani
1 entries- chuchi del verb (to give suck to)
Romanian
2 entries- alăpta verb (to give suck to)
- suge verb (to nurse; to suck)
Russian
3 entries- вска́рмливать verb (to give suck to)
- корми́ть гру́дью verb (to give suck to)
- соса́ть грудь verb (to nurse; to suck)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- dòjiti verb (to give suck to)
- до̀јити verb (to give suck to)
Spanish
2 entries- amamantar verb (to give suck to)
- mamar verb (to nurse; to suck)
Swedish
4 entries- amma verb (to give suck to)
- dia verb (to give suck to)
- dia verb (to nurse; to suck)
- dägga verb (to give suck to)
Turkish
2 entries- emzirmek verb (to give suck to)
- meme vermek verb (to give suck to)
Unami
1 entries- nune verb (to nurse; to suck)
Vietnamese
2 entries- bú verb (to give suck to)
- mút verb (to give suck to)
Volapük
3 entries- nimafön verb (to give suck to)
- sugön verb (to nurse; to suck)
- sügön verb (to give suck to)
Yiddish
1 entries- זייגן verb (to give suck to)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
They dig burrows for their winter residence, and the females suckle their young at the bottom of their habitations.
Source: tatoeba (11827289)
She didn't suckle her daughter today.
Source: tatoeba (12651000)
[…] the body of this fish [the Mannatee] is commonly 3 yards long and one broad, slow in swimming, wanting fins, in their place ayded with 2 paps which are not only suckles but stilts to creep a shoare upon such time she grazes […]
Source: wiktionary
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