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To cause or allow to take milk at the breast or udder; nurse.
(verb-transitive)
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To take milk at the breast or udder of.
(verb-transitive)
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To take in as sustenance; have as nourishment.
(verb-transitive)
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To nourish as if with the milk of the breast; nurture: "a pagan suckled in a creed outworn” ( William Wordsworth).
(verb-transitive)
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To suck at the breast or udder.
(verb-intransitive)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.