Definitions for suctions

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suctions suc·tion

Spelling: [suhk-shuh n]

IPA: /ˈsʌk ʃən/

Suctions is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in suctions (cinosstu).

Definitions for suctions

noun

1. the act, process, or condition of sucking.
2. the force that, by a pressure differential, attracts a substance or object to the region of lower pressure.
3. the act or process of producing such a force.

verb (used with object)

1. to draw out or remove by aspiration.

Origin of suctions

1605-15; Late Latin sūctiōn- (stem of sūctiō) a sucking, equivalent to Latin sūct(us) (past participle of sūgere to suck) + -iōn- Examples for suctions

A series of suction cups or sucking pads were at the end of each tentacle.

I could see a respirator off to my right, and a suction octopus near it.

Then it occurred to Cheenbuk to apply the power of suction instead of inhalation.

Do you know the suction of clay—the weight of adhering clay to a shovel?

A mullet of Guiana, found in turbid waters, where it lives by suction.

The tube was to be inserted so it could suction out the blood and air packed in the chest and prevent the lung from collapsing.

Soames noted a hollow in each cheek, made as it were by suction.

Even the slain deer was already beginning to yield to the suction from beneath.

The water may be drawn out by means of suction through a reed.

What must have been holding the suction cap against the inside of the jar?