All suckle synonyms
suck·le
S s verb suckle
- breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- feed — to give a fee to.
- dry-nurse — to act as a dry nurse to.
- nourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- lactate — to produce milk.
- lactating — to produce milk.
- nurse — a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- bottle-feed — If you bottle-feed a baby, you give it milk or a liquid like milk in a bottle rather than the baby sucking milk from its mother's breasts.
- fetch up — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- drag up — old subject: raise again