milked
Meaning of milked
verb, past tense
- draw milk from (a cow or other animal), either by hand or mechanically.
two hours later he was up again to milk the cows
I had to start the milking
- exploit or defraud by taking small amounts of money over a period of time.
executives milked the health plan's funds for their personal use
Old English milc, milcian, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch melk and German Milch, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mulgere and Greek amelgein ‘to milk’.
Information about milked
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Hyphenation of milked
milked
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- milked is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
milked synonyms
Meaning make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource):
Meaning drain (someone) of money or resources:
Meaning obtain a great deal of money from (someone), typically by overcharging or swindling them:
Meaning firmly press (something soft or yielding), typically with one's fingers:
Meaning obtain (something) with difficulty or effort:
Meaning demand money or another benefit from (someone) in return for not revealing compromising or damaging information about them:
Words that rhyme with milked
balked, bechalked, bushwalked, cakewalked, calked, chalked, duckwalked, jaywalked, moonwalked, outtalked, outwalked, overtalked, peptalked, racewalked, semibalked, sleepwalked, spacewalked, stalked, talked, unbalked, uncalked, unchalked, unstalked, untalked, unwalked, walked, welked, whelked, bilked, overmilked, silked, unmilked, holked, polked, yolked, baulked, bulked, caulked, debulked, hulked, outbulked, outsulked, overbulked, sculked, skulked, sulked, uncaulked, waulked
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