also syphon
(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you ~ liquid from a container, you make it come out through a tube and down into a lower container by enabling the pressure of the air on it to push it out.
She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts ~ing gas from a huge metal drum...
VERB: V n prep
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Siphon off means the same as ~ .
Surgeons ~ed off fluid from his left lung...
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
2.
A ~ is a tube that you use for ~ing liquid.
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3.
If you ~ money or resources from something, you cause them to be used for a purpose for which they were not intended.
He had ~ed thousands of pounds a week from the failing business...
VERB: V n prep
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Siphon off means the same as ~ .
He had ~ed off a small fortune in aid money from the United Nations.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P