suckle

Verbs

  • (v) suck milk from the mother's breasts
    • the infant was suckling happily
  • (v) give suck to
    • The wetnurse suckled the infant
    • You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places
    breastfeed, give suck, lactate, wet-nurse, nurse, suck,

Synonyms

breastfeed give suck lactate wet-nurse nurse suck

Antonyms

bottlefeed

Words of close approximity

sucker
suckled