Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to suckle
Participle: suckled
Gerund: suckling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | suckle |
| you | suckle |
| he;she;it | suckles |
| we | suckle |
| you | suckle |
| they | suckle |
Perfect
| I | have suckled |
| you | have suckled |
| he;she;it | has suckled |
| we | have suckled |
| you | have suckled |
| they | have suckled |
Past
| I | suckled |
| you | suckled |
| he;she;it | suckled |
| we | suckled |
| you | suckled |
| they | suckled |
Pluperfect
| I | had suckled |
| you | had suckled |
| he;she;it | had suckled |
| we | had suckled |
| you | had suckled |
| they | had suckled |
Future
| I | will suckle |
| you | will suckle |
| he;she;it | will suckle |
| we | will suckle |
| you | will suckle |
| they | will suckle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have suckled |
| you | will have suckled |
| he;she;it | will have suckled |
| we | will have suckled |
| you | will have suckled |
| they | will have suckled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | suckle |
| you | suckle |
| he;she;it | suckle |
| we | suckle |
| you | suckle |
| they | suckle |
Perfect
| I | have suckled |
| you | have suckled |
| he;she;it | have suckled |
| we | have suckled |
| you | have suckled |
| they | have suckled |
Imperfect
| I | suckled |
| you | suckled |
| he;she;it | suckled |
| we | suckled |
| you | suckled |
| they | suckled |
Pluperfect
| I | had suckled |
| you | had suckled |
| he;she;it | had suckled |
| we | had suckled |
| you | had suckled |
| they | had suckled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would suckle |
| you | would suckle |
| he;she;it | would suckle |
| we | would suckle |
| you | would suckle |
| they | would suckle |
Perfect
| I | would have suckled |
| you | would have suckled |
| he;she;it | would have suckled |
| we | would have suckled |
| you | would have suckled |
| they | would have suckled |
Imperative
| you | suckle |
| we | Let's suckle |
| you | suckle |
Verbs conjugated like 'suckle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'suckle'
buckle,
muckle,
ruckle,
shuckle,
sickle,
buckler,
buskle,
cackle,
chuckle,
cockle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English sukelen; probably a back-formation of Middle English sukeling (“a suckling; infant”), formally equivalent to suck + -le (frequentative suffix). See suckling.
Sample Sentences
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[…] the breasts of Hecuba
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When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier
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Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood
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At Grecian sword, contemning. [c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
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Let us indulge them; they are not weak, suckled by Wisdom, taught to walk by Virtue. [1824, Walter Savage Landor, “The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 35:]
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A relief of a goat suckling her young. [1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 21:]
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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. [1931, Pearl S. Buck, chapter 4, in The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, published 1944, page 35:]
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Buz attempted to suckle his left nipple. [1982, Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace, New York: Avon, published 1983, page 60:]
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She opened her eyes slightly, like a person drugged—dreamy and quiet. The baby suckled her. [1997, Ridley Pearson, Beyond Recognition, New York: Hyperion, page 129:]