0 past simple and past participle of milk
1 to get milk from an animal:
2 to get as much money or information out of someone or something as possible, often in an unfair or dishonest way:
[ + obj + adj ] The newspapers milked the story dry.
The directors milked the company of several million dollars.
This is a potent combination for ridicule, and it is milked remorselessly.
In swab experiment 1, liners were swabbed in duplicate after infected quarters had been milked.
In the evening the herds returned to be milked.
Low-yielding dams are milked less often and, when milk is abundant, poorly yielding dams are not milked at all.
Ewes are milked after lambs have been weaned at two-to-three months of age.
One cannot help feeling that the country house is simply a place to be milked for the book they are writing.
The assistant maintains the compression as the suture material is milked through to ensure uniform tension and no slippage.
Towards the end of the lactation, all four teats are milked manually and the calf only empties the udder after milking.
