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adj.Majestic: P. and V. σεμνός.Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Awful
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1. verb1) (to draw liquid etc into the mouth: As soon as they are born, young animals learn to suck (milk from their mothers); She sucked up the lemonade through a straw.) ρουφώ/βυζαίνω2) (to hold something between the lips or inside the mouth, as though drawing liquid from it: I told him to take the sweet out of his mouth, but he just went on sucking; He sucked the end of his pencil.) πιπιλίζω3) (to pull or draw in a particular direction with a sucking or similar action: The vacuum cleaner sucked up all the dirt from the carpet; A plant sucks up moisture from the soil.) αναρροφώ,απορροφώ4) ((American) (slang) to be awful, boring, disgusting etc: Her singing sucks; This job sucks.) βρωμάω,είμαι άθλιος/σιχαμερός2. noun(an act of sucking: I gave him a suck of my lollipop.) πιπίλισμα- sucker- suck up to
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