suction

suction is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
2. noun. the act of sucking

   Synonyms: suck, sucking

3. noun. a force over an area produced by a pressure difference
4. verb. empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction

   "suction the uterus in an abortion"

5. verb. remove or draw away by the force of suction

   "the doctors had to suction the water from the patient's lungs"

Synonyms

suck, sucking

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in suction:

cotinus, unstoic

Common word forms

suctions, suctional, suctioned, suctioning

Words from these letters

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