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suck in

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. take in, sop up, suck in, take upverb

    take up as if with a sponge

  2. suck, suck inverb

    attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.

    "The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad"

  3. suck in, draw inverb

    draw in as if by suction

    "suck in your cheeks and stomach"

Wiktionary

  1. suck inverb

    To cause someone to become slowly more and more involved in a business or situation that is often not to that person's liking.

  2. suck inverb

    To contract one's abdominal muscles to make one's stomach look flatter.

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  1. suck in

    "Suck in" generally refers to the act of drawing something into a space, usually by creating a vacuum or a lower pressure, causing the air or matter to move inward. It could be used both literally, such as water being sucked into a pump or pipe, or figuratively, such as a person being absorbed or engrossed into a situation or activity. The definition depends on the context in which it is used.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of suck in in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of suck in in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of suck in in a Sentence

  1. John McBride:

    Once you get in the water everything changes, it's different, there are consequences, you can't just suck in air. You can't cheat.

  2. Teri Shields:

    It’s not pretty, but if I lie down, and I suck in, I can get ‘em zipped up, i did it once, and I proved something to myself. I’m not sure what. And then I folded them back, put them in the archives and then gave the other pair to the Met.

  3. Ryan Helbach:

    There are no moving parts in the flow path, so that means there are no compressor blades to suck in the air, so we need something to get us up to above Mach 4 in order to get the compression into the engine.

  4. June Jordan:

    Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.

  5. Camila Cabello:

    I haven’t gone on social media AT ALL with the conscious intention of avoiding things that hurt my feelings, but for a second I forgot while trying to find a pic to post about it being Havana’s 2 year anniversary and my eyes accidentally ran over a head line of people ‘body shaming me,' my cellulite! oh no! I didn’t suck in my stomach!

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