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
And as God willed, no longer did he need to be suckled, nor did I take fever; that I might not be tormented by care for the child and by the pain of my breasts.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
He had fallen overboard as a baby from the side of his father’s ship and been washed up on a desolate shore, where a female wolf had suckled him and kept him alive.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
