undersuck

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verb

To suck under.

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Meanings

verbundersuck (third-person singular simple present undersucks, present participle undersucking, simple past and past participle undersucked)

present singular third person undersucks · participle present undersucking · participle past undersucked · past undersucked

  1. ambitransitiveTo suck under.
nounundersuck (countable and uncountable, plural undersucks)

plural undersucks

  1. countableuncountableThe act of sucking under, usually generated by the force of moving water.
    1 more example

    Eliot, however, held him up from drowning until one of the boats arrived on the scene, and they were dragged into it, but even then they were in peril from the greatness of the waves, and the undersuck, as they broke and retreated, which well-nigh swamped the boat and its contents, and it was with great difficulty that the men on shore grappled the thwarts of the boat and brought her safely to land, […]

    1904, Arthur Christopher Thynne, Sir Bevill, page 21

Origin

From under- + suck.

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APA

undersuck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undersuck

MLA

“undersuck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undersuck. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undersuck,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undersuck.

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