Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To shake suddenly for any purpose, as to elicit a splashing sound in pneumothorax.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To shake with vigor.
  • verb medicine specifically to shake a patient to detect fluids or air in the body.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)

Etymologies

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From Latin succutere ("to shake up"), from sub- + quatere ("to shake").

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Examples

  • It's not as if waterfalls and various other natural processes don't "succuss" the water quite nicely.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Orac none@example.com 2010

  • The word most resembling "suffer" that is also something you'd do to a mixture is, I think, succuss, to shake or agitate, usually in the context of homeopathy which also introduces a link to wizardry.

    Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010

  • He is more than anti-business - he is anti succuss and anti aspiration.

    Evening Standard - Home Craig Woodhouse 2012

  • Take the amount of homeopathy talk that would normally induce annoyance on MetaTalk and then dilute it 10: 1 with pure blue, be sure to succuss it well, and repeat 99 times.

    Popular Posts Across MetaFilter Dillonlikescookies 2010

  • Yes, but consider the possibilities of convincing them to use other fluids: "Just dissolve the substance in some nitroglycerin and succuss ..."

    Pharyngula 2009

  • Palin will soon find out that the "You Betcha, hockey mom" BS she gives out will not carry her to any succuss.

    Lowell Sun Forum 2008

  • Any you know, the odd thing about what’s transpired since is that no one has stepped forward and proved him wrong by identifying the discriminatory factors that are holding back women from achieving succuss at the peak Harvard of the fields of Math, Physics and Engineering.

    Seven Short Posts Regarding Larry Summers, Civility, and Censorship 2006

  • Any you know, the odd thing about what’s transpired since is that no one has stepped forward and proved him wrong by identifying the discriminatory factors that are holding back women from achieving succuss at the peak Harvard of the fields of Math, Physics and Engineering.

    Seven Short Posts Regarding Larry Summers, Civility, and Censorship 2006

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