Synonyms of milked

milked

verb

past tense of milk

as in exploited

to take unfair advantage of

unscrupulous people trying to milk the welfare system for all it's worth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• exploited
• used
• abused
• leveraged
• manipulated
• played (on or upon)
• walked on
• imposed (on or upon)
• traded on
• pimped
• capitalized (on)
• worked
• cheated
• cashed in (on)
• mistreated
• bled
• soaked
• fleeced
• stuck
• skinned
• overcharged
• jerked around
• commercialized
• commodified

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of milked

There’s no reason why the Bills shouldn’t have milked the clock for two plays and kicked the field goal with about 40 seconds left. — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

But most observers recognize that those channels will be milked for cash, with wide cuts expected as the company seeks to harvest the revenue from carriage fees and redistribute to other priorities, like streaming, and paying down that pesky debt. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

Over the weekend, a supremely happy-seeming Dudamel, before heading to the New York Philharmonic in a couple weeks, milked the thanks in a back-to-the-Bowl, four-night blowout. — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

In a slower season, something like Luke’s departure would have been milked for at least a whole episode, if not more. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 28 July 2026

The walls had a nominal utility as fences for the dairy herd that was milked in the great white cow barn, but this was only ever a Gilded Age fantasy of the rustic idyll. — Matt Seaton, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026

But elsewhere, the film’s sporadic, accidental humor comes to its rescue — a scene involving a cow that clearly doesn’t want to be milked especially comes to mind. — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 20 May 2026

Growing up on a farm in Wabasha, Minnesota, one of 18 children, Bea milked cows and attended a one-room schoolhouse during the great depression. — Irene Gonzalez, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026

Monster has, itself, been the target of criticism from people like the Menendezes and the families of Dahmer’s victims, who feel their traumas have been milked for sensation rather than sublimated into high art. — Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025