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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

insucking en · NOUN

Etymology

From in + sucking.

Meanings

  1. A sucking inward.
    • Her initial response to this was a retropulsion or insucking of the tongue, so severe that speech was impossible, and she was in continual danger of swallowing her tongue. 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
    • Yoritomo met their smiles and kowtowings and noisy insuckings of breath with an austere dignity that I took pains to imitate. 1910, Robert Ames Bennet, The Shogun's Daughter:

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