milk
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noun
Often used to modify another noun: milk cows; milk products.
verb
milked, milking, milks
2. To press out, drain off, or remove by or as if by milking: milk venom from a snake.
3. Informal. a. To draw out or extract something from, as if by milking: milked the witness for information. b. To obtain money or benefits from, in order to achieve personal gain; exploit: "The dictator and his cronies had milked their country of somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion" (Russell Watson).
[Middle English, from Old English milc.]