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SUCK

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Traducere în limba română

suck I. substantiv

1. sugere, supt;

to give a child suck a da unui copil să sugă, a alăpta un copil, a da ţâţă unui copil;

child at suck copil de ţâţă, sugar;

to have / to take a suck at one’s pipe a suge pipa, a trage din pipă.

2. (hidr.) aspiraţie, absorbire (a unei pompe, a unei guri de vărsare a apei).

3. (fam.) înghiţitură, duşcă.

4. plural (sl. şcol.) bomboane.

◊ (sl.) what a suck! ce mai păcăleală!

suck II. verb A. tranzitiv

a suge (lapte, sânge etc.), a absorbi, a suge;

to suck the marrow out of a bone a suge măduva unui os;

to suck one’s fingers a-şi suge degetele;

(fam.) go and teach your grandmother / your grannie to suck eggs vinzi castraveţi grădinarului.

suck II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a suge.

2. a trage din pipă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I did not mention this last, lest it should give her needless pain; but it made my blood run cold in my veins to think of what had occurred with poor Lucy when the Count had sucked her blood.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

To deal with these effects, use eye drops to keep your eyes moist, chew sugarless gum or suck on sugarless hard candy if dry mouth bothers you, and take small sips of water throughout the day.

(Overactive Bladder, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Those children whose blood she suck are not as yet so much the worse; but if she live on, Un-Dead, more and more they lose their blood and by her power over them they come to her; and so she draw their blood with that so wicked mouth.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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