milk
/mɪlk/ verb C2- To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). · The farmer milked his cows.
- To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder. · to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows
- Of a dairy cow, to produce milk.
- To express a liquid from a creature. · The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.
- To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something). · When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
- To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
- To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated. · Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.
He/she/it milks · Past milked · Past participle milked · -ing form milking
Verb forms
- Base form
- milk
- He/she/it
- milks
- Past
- milked
- Past participle
- milked
- -ing form
- milking
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The Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from the change: and Alice was a good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upset the milk-jug into his plate.
But the walls were made of screens of marble tracery--beautiful milk-white fretwork, set with agates and cornelians and jasper and lapis lazuli, and as the moon came up behind the hill it shone through the open work, casting shadows on the ground like black velvet embroidery.
I’ll set your tea out for you and I’ll be home in time to milk the cows.”
But she said nothing, to him, relative to the affair, until they were both out in the yard behind the barn milking the cows.
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