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# suckle

verb (suckle, suckles, suckled, suckling)

«suckle» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. When a mother mammal suckles her baby, she feeds it with milk from her body. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#m1)
2. When a baby animal suckles, it drinks milk from its mother. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons on mammals and life cycles, children learn that all mammals suckle their young: cows, cats, whales, kangaroos (joeys in the pouch) and humans. In farm visits, you see lambs and piglets suckling. «Suckling» is also an old word for a baby still drinking its mother's milk. Phrases: «suckle her young», «a suckling pig».

### Examples

- The cow suckled her calf in the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x1)
- Mammals suckle their young with milk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x2)
- The kittens suckled while the mother cat purred. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x3)
- A joey suckles inside its mother's pouch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x4)
- Whales suckle their babies underwater. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x5)
- The piglets pushed to suckle from the sow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x6)
- The babe became still, just as if it was being suckled. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x7)

### Note

Regular verb. A science word for feeding milk; for human babies people usually say «breastfeed». Feeding milk to young is one of the features that makes an animal a mammal.

## In Jewish tradition

In science lessons on mammals and life cycles, children learn that all mammals suckle their young: cows, cats, whales, kangaroos (joeys in the pouch) and humans. In farm visits, you see lambs and piglets suckling. «Suckling» is also an old word for a baby still drinking its mother's milk. Phrases: «suckle her young», «a suckling pig».

### Examples

- Without shall the sword bereave, and in the chambers terror; slaying both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs. (Torah DEU.32.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/suckle/#x1)
- Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.' (Prophets 1SA.15.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/suckle/#x2)

### Note

Regular verb. A science word for feeding milk; for human babies people usually say «breastfeed». Feeding milk to young is one of the features that makes an animal a mammal.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «suckle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«suckle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/suckle.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «suckle» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/suckle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«suckle» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/suckle.html) on Mova free.