Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb suckle

2 senses of suckle

Sense 1
suckle -- (suck milk from the mother's breasts; "the infant was suckling happily")
       => feed, eat -- (take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?")

Sense 2
breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck -- (give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places")
       => feed, give -- (give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat")

Antonyms of adj suckled

1 sense of suckled

Sense 1
nursed, suckled -- ((of an infant) breast-fed)

INDIRECT (VIA breast-fed) -> bottle-fed -- ((of an infant) given milk from a bottle)

Similarity of adj suckled

1 sense of suckled

Sense 1
nursed, suckled -- ((of an infant) breast-fed)
       => breast-fed (vs. bottle-fed) -- ((of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast)