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(transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs. / (intransitive) To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother. / (transitive) To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).

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suckle

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Source Word

suckle

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈsʌ.kəl/

Verb

transitive intransitive

(transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs. / (intransitive) To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother. / (transitive) To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).

Japanese Meaning

授乳する（特に赤ん坊や仔が母乳を吸って栄養を得る） / （動物が）乳を吸うことで育む

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The mother allowed the lamb to suckle at her side until it grew stronger.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

母羊は子羊が元気になるまでそばで授乳した。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.

[…] the breasts of Hecuba

When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier

Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood

At Grecian sword, contemning.

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Sense（2）

(intransitive) To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.

But out of the woman’s great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, and she let it flow.

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