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Definition of sucking-in in English English dictionary
- suck in
- To cause someone to become slowly more and more involved in a business or situation that is often not to that person's liking
I really didn't want to be on the committee, but somehow I got sucked in.
- suck in
- {f} comprehend, absorb; cheat, defraud
- suck in
- take up as if with a sponge
- suck in
- draw in as if by suction; "suck in your cheeks and stomach"
- suck in
- draw in as if by suction; "suck in your cheeks and stomach
- suck in
- remove as if by suction; "draw in air"
- suck in
- attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc ; "The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad"