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suction 1. the force or condition produced by a pressure difference, as the force holding a suction cap onto a surface 2. the act or process of producing such a force or condition How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Armed men and women flocked out of the Quarter so fast, and drew even these last dregs after them with such a force of suction, that within a quarter of an hour there was not a human creature in Saint Antoine's bosom but a few old crones and the wailing children. For one instant, I thought the unhappy man, entangled with the poulp, would be torn from its powerful suction. They held things more clumsily; drinking by suction, feeding by gnawing, grew commoner every day. |
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