{
    "term": "suck",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "suck",
            "heSheIt": "sucks"
        },
        "pastSimple": "sucked",
        "pastParticiple": "sucked",
        "ingForm": "sucking"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to take liquid, air, etc. into your mouth by using the muscles of your lips",
            "sensetop": "suck something (+ adv./prep.)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to suck the juice from an orange"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was noisily sucking up milk through a straw."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He sucked the blood from a cut on his finger."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["noisily", "away", "in"],
                "preposition": ["at", "from", "on"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to keep something in your mouth and pull on it with your lips and tongue",
            "sensetop": "suck at/on somethingsuck something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The baby sucked at its mother's breast.",
                    "contextForm": "suck at/on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He sucked at the wound on his hand."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She sucked on a mint."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She sucked a mint.",
                    "contextForm": "suck something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Stop sucking your thumb!"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["noisily", "away", "in"],
                "preposition": ["at", "from", "on"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to take liquid, air, etc. out of something",
            "sensetop": "suck something + adv./prep.suck something + adj.",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The pump sucks air out through the valve.",
                    "contextForm": "suck something + adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.",
                    "contextForm": "suck something + adj."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The machine sucks up mud and stones from the bottom of the pond."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["noisily", "away", "in"],
                "preposition": ["at", "from", "on"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to pull somebody/something with great force in a particular direction",
            "sensetop": "suck somebody/something + adv./prep.",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The canoe was sucked down into the whirlpool."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The mud had sucked him in up to his waist."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["noisily", "away", "in"],
                "preposition": ["at", "from", "on"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "used to say that something is very bad",
            "labels": "(slang)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Their new album sucks."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to get from somebody/something all the money, help, information, etc. they have, usually giving nothing in return",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "By earning millions from racing and giving pennies back, the bookmakers are sucking the sport dry."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that the only way to know if something is suitable is to try it",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to accept something bad and deal with it well, controlling your emotions",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to tell or show somebody how to do something that they can already do well, and probably better than you can",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sʌk/",
                "audio": "su/suck/suck__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sʌks/",
                "audio": "su/suck/sucks__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sʌkt/",
                "audio": "su/suck/sucked__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsʌkɪŋ/",
                "audio": "su/suck/sucking__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sʌk/",
                "audio": "su/suck/suck__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sʌks/",
                "audio": "su/suck/sucks__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sʌkt/",
                "audio": "su/suck/sucked__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsʌkɪŋ/",
                "audio": "su/suck/sucking__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English sūcan (verb), from an Indo-European imitative root; related to soak."
}