insuck

present singular third person insucks · participle present insucking · participle past insucked · past insucked

1. transitiveTo suck in; inhale; absorb; soak up.

   The terrible wound of mouth peeled and slithered, insucked and garbled a single word: [...]

   2001, Ray Bradbury, A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities

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   The first course was soup, and as the younger used his spoon, his lips reached forth to meet it, at the same time he insucked his breath, which made a particular noise.

   1905, William Baucke, Where the white man treads

   [...] a wavering or trembling of the haypiles as if the hay itself took breath: insucks & outflows, faint wave motions rippling across low flat haystack is the giveaway [...]

   1999, The Atlantic monthly, volume 284

plural insucks

1. The act or process of sucking in; absorption.

   The timing of the insuck of semen in relation to sperm capacitation (the process that renders sperm capable of fertilizing an egg) has been discussed critically by Levin (2002).

   2006, Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer, Beverly Whipple, The science of orgasm

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   The refill, the tamping down with finger, the match lit, the quick insucks, the very flushed face very serious now, sound of sucking in air, bubbling of pipe, waving of match to extinguish, puffing out clouds of smoke, rolling over on [...]

   2004, Aidan Higgins, A bestiary