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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of suction.

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Examples

  • One of them sat on my couch the other day hooked up to tubes and suctions and a giant deconstructed bra, looking like some fetish ad, or a footnote from the Josef Mengele years.

    The Case Against Breast-Feeding 2009

  • So, here is another tip: When you put it in your mouth and it suctions onto your gums or cheeks and it will, slide your tongue under it to facilitate chewing.

    Michelle Won: A Living Lesson in Korean Culinary History Michelle Won 2011

  • So, here is another tip: When you put it in your mouth and it suctions onto your gums or cheeks and it will, slide your tongue under it to facilitate chewing.

    Michelle Won: A Living Lesson in Korean Culinary History Michelle Won 2011

  • So, here is another tip: When you put it in your mouth and it suctions onto your gums or cheeks and it will, slide your tongue under it to facilitate chewing.

    Michelle Won: A Living Lesson in Korean Culinary History Michelle Won 2011

  • One of them sat on my couch the other day hooked up to tubes and suctions and a giant deconstructed bra, looking like some fetish ad, or a footnote from the Josef Mengele years.

    The Case Against Breast-Feeding 2009

  • So, here is another tip: When you put it in your mouth and it suctions onto your gums or cheeks and it will, slide your tongue under it to facilitate chewing.

    Michelle Won: A Living Lesson in Korean Culinary History Michelle Won 2011

  • I reach in and pull out blown-out teeth with a gloved finger while a medic suctions blood.

    Paradise General Dr. Dave Hnida 2010

  • I reach in and pull out blown-out teeth with a gloved finger while a medic suctions blood.

    Paradise General Dr. Dave Hnida 2010

  • It suctions it's tentacles to the walls of my belly and pulls them together forcing me

    Octopus 2010

  • In the intact method, a doctor then suctions out the fetus 'brain to collapse the head and allow delivery.

    Court takes harder stance on abortion 2007

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