suckle
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
suck milk from the mother's breasts
the infant was suckling happily
Types & categories
- eat hypernym
Related & opposite
- drink entails
Sense 2 verb
give suck to
The wetnurse suckled the infant
Types & categories
- feed hypernym
Related & opposite
- bottlefeed antonym
- sucking derivation
- lactation derivation
- breast feeding derivation
- sucker derivation
- nursery derivation
- nanny derivation
- lactation derivation
- lactation derivation
- suck verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entails | Related & opposite | drink |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | eat |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | bottlefeed |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sucking |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lactation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | breast feeding |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sucker |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | nursery |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | nanny |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lactation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lactation |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | suck |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | feed |