suckle
verb (used with object)
to nurse at the breast or udder.
suckled
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past participleof suckle.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof suckle.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
suckleverb (used with object)to nurse at the breast or udder.
Example Sentences
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The other two are named Romulus and Remus, after the mythical founders of Rome said to have been suckled by a she-wolf as infants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
“There is no food or water. Sometimes I have nothing to give the kids,” she said as her 14-month-old suckled on her deflated breast.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
I watched as a ewe suckled two lambs that she had adopted in this way.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
Then all of them going out from the dungeon took their pleasure; I suckled my child that was now faint with hunger.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
Ah hide in dere day and night and suckled de baby every time she start to cry, for fear somebody might hear her and Ah’d git found.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
