2.[intransitiveI]HBHHBA if a baby or young animal suckles, it sucks milk from a breast 〔婴儿或小动物〕吃奶,吸奶 → breast-feed, nurse
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suckle• Pupssuckle for three to four weeks before gradually learning to go their own way.• Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed, suckling her baby at the same time.• On a bench a young woman with redhair had been suckling her baby.• For instance, an adultfemale will purr while suckling her kittens and when she courts a male.• But neither of these facts is of much relevance, for both apply to older children, not to sucklinginfants.• Suckling me where your mouth suckled?• It is the woman who conceives, bears, and suckles the child.