suckled

suck·le  (skl)

v. suck·led, suck·ling, suck·les

v.tr.

1.

a. To cause or allow to take milk at the breast or udder; nurse.

b. To take milk at the breast or udder of.

2. To take in as sustenance; have as nourishment.

3. To nourish as if with the milk of the breast; nurture: "a pagan suckled in a creed outworn" (William Wordsworth).

v.intr.

To suck at the breast or udder.

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[Middle English suclen, perhaps from suklinge, suckling; see suckling.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

suckled - (of an infant) breast-fed nursed breast-fed - (of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast