succade | (noun) fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals | Synonyms: candied fruit, crystallized fruit |
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succedaneum | (noun) (medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another) | - |
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succeed | (verb) attain success or reach a desired goal | Synonyms: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, win |
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(verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, follow |
succeeder | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, success, winner |
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succeeding | (adjective) coming after or following | - |
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(adjective) (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving | Synonyms: future, next |
success | (noun) an attainment that is successful | - |
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(noun) an event that accomplishes its intended purpose | - |
(noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, succeeder, winner |
(noun) a state of prosperity or fame | - |
successful | (adjective) having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome | - |
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successfully | (adverb) with success; in a successful manner | - |
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successfulness | (noun) the condition of prospering; having good fortune | Synonyms: prosperity |
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succession | (noun) the action of following in order | Synonyms: sequence |
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(noun) acquisition of property by descent or by will | Synonyms: taking over |
(noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, successiveness |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged or following in order | - |
(noun) (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established | Synonyms: ecological succession |
successive | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial |
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successively | (adverb) in proper order or sequence | Synonyms: in turn |
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successiveness | (noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, succession |
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successor | (noun) a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone | - |
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(noun) a person who inherits some title or office | Synonyms: heir |
(noun) a person who follows next in order | Synonyms: replacement |
succinct | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, compendious, summary |
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succinctly | (adverb) with concise and precise brevity; to the point | Synonyms: compactly |
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succinctness | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: conciseness, concision, pithiness |
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succinic | (adjective) of or relating to or obtained from amber | - |
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succinylcholine | (noun) a muscle relaxant for striated muscle that is used as an adjunct to anesthesia during certain surgical procedures | - |
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succor | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: ministration, relief, succour |
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(verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succour |
succorer | (noun) someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty | Synonyms: succourer |
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succory | (noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus |
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succotash | (noun) fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream | - |
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succour | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: ministration, relief, succor |
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(verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succor |
succourer | (noun) someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty | Synonyms: succorer |
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succuba | (noun) a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | Synonyms: succubus |
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succubus | (noun) a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | Synonyms: succuba |
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succulence | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulency |
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succulency | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulence |
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succulent | (adjective) tender and full of juice | Synonyms: lush |
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(noun) a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs | - |
succumb | (verb) consent reluctantly | Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, yield |
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(verb) be fatally overwhelmed | Synonyms: yield |
succus | (noun) any of several liquids of the body | Synonyms: juice |
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succuss | (verb) shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body) | Synonyms: shake up |
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succussion | (noun) shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid is present in a body cavity | - |
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such | (adjective) of so extreme a degree or extent; demonstrative, other pronoun; demonstrative determiner, kind | - |
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(adverb) to so extreme a degree | - |
suchlike | (adjective) of the same kind | - |
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suck | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: sucking, suction |
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(verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suckle, wet-nurse |
(verb) draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth | - |
(verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up |
(verb) draw something in by or as if by a vacuum | - |
(verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: blow, fellate, go down on |
(verb) be inadequate or objectionable | Synonyms: blow |
(verb) attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc. | Synonyms: suck in |
sucker | (noun) mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps | - |
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(noun) an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction | - |
(noun) hard candy on a stick | Synonyms: all-day sucker, lollipop |
(noun) flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws | - |
(noun) a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw) | - |
(noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch |
(noun) a shoot arising from a plant's roots | - |
suckerfish | (noun) marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | Synonyms: remora, sucking fish |
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sucking | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: suck, suction |
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suckle | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, wet-nurse |
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(verb) suck milk from the mother's breasts | - |
suckled | (adjective) (of an infant) breast-fed | Synonyms: nursed |
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suckling | (noun) feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast | Synonyms: lactation |
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(noun) a young mammal that has not been weaned | - |
(noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nurseling, nursling |
sucralfate | (noun) medicine consisting of a tablet (trade name Carafate) used to treat peptic ulcers; said to bind to the ulcer site and coat it | Synonyms: Carafate |
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sucrase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose | Synonyms: invertase, saccharase |
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sucre | (noun) the basic unit of money in Ecuador; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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sucrose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: saccharose |
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suction | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: suck, sucking |
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(noun) a force over an area produced by a pressure difference | - |
(verb) empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction | - |
(verb) remove or draw away by the force of suction | - |
suctorial | (adjective) adapted for sucking or clinging by suction | - |
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