siphoned

verb

variants also syphoned
past tense of siphon
1
as in drained
to remove (liquid) gradually or completely I let the stranded motorist siphon some of my gas so he could be on his way

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2
as in funneled
to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway investigators discovered that the so-called charitable organization was siphoning funds for personal use

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Recent Examples of siphoned Thousands of Brazilian reals, the national currency, were soon siphoned from his bank account. — Harry Booth, Time, 26 June 2026 More than 100 Labour members of Parliament called for Starmer to step down after Reform UK, a relatively new anti-immigration and hard-right party, won the largest number of local seats and the rising Green Party siphoned voters from the left. — ABC News, 23 June 2026 According to Stanford’s White, although Union Pacific had a huge amount of capital, much of it was siphoned off to the Credit Mobilier, the construction company working on the project, which was owned by insiders at the time. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 June 2026 And the rise of Restore Britain, another hard-right party amplified by Elon Musk which advocates for the large-scale deportation of migrants, has siphoned off some support for Reform too. — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 17 June 2026 The governor has directed $11 billion in surpluses toward this effort since 2020, stopping the huge expansion of pension costs that siphoned dollars away from other programs. — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2026 The trustee alleged that Calce and other insiders had improperly siphoned away cash and other assets. — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 9 June 2026 Once considered competitive territory, the district was transformed into safe Republican ground after Democratic mapmakers packed it with conservative voters siphoned from neighboring GOP seats. — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 3 June 2026 Afterward, the water is discharged into the Sacramento River through an 800-foot-long pipe, with a portion siphoned off for crop irrigation. — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for siphoned
  1. drained
  2. funneled
  3. pumped
  4. directed
  5. channeled
  6. carried
  7. conducted
  8. piped
Verb
  • There’s a collective draw toward the general aesthetic vision on offer here — cold, computerized, humanity-drained — and the frictionless insularity of the characters’ lives.
    — Nick H. Penniman, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2026
  • After Sunday’s loss to Arizona he was scheduled to have his left knee drained and likely will receive an injection.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of drained
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  • Instead of raising expensive new money from outside investors, parent companies extracted equity from their nonbank subsidiaries and funneled it into their commercial bank arms.
    — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Wealthy donors have largely flocked to Bronin’s and Larson’s campaigns, both as individual contributors or funneled through political action committees.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2026
Definition of funneled
Verb
  • The aorta is the largest blood vessel in body and the first place blood travels through as it’s pumped from the heart to other parts of the body.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 13 July 2026
  • After a judge approved the agreement during a short hearing in Little Rock District Court, Olivia Thompson turned to the audience and pumped her fist in the air.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2026
Definition of pumped
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  • Hochul, in signing the order, directed the Department of Public Service (DPS) to consider creating the fund to help support the procurement of a clean energy supply and establish an insurance pool to protect against large loads.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 14 July 2026
  • The 2000s megacomic Dane Cook will star in an upcoming horror short directed by wunderkind Obsession director Barker’s father, Jeff Barker, per The Hollywood Reporter.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 July 2026
Definition of directed
Verb
  • The Czech Republic channelled their inner Premier League influence to score from a throw-in, while Korea’s equaliser by Hwang In-beom came at the end of a 25-pass move.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • These entrepreneurs channeled profound adversity into solutions that now help countless others.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of channeled
Verb
  • Along with Nyong’o, celebrities like Meryl Streep, Katy Perry and Millie Bobby Brown have carried the brand’s clutches.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 15 July 2026
  • Short cruises have carried a party reputation for years, as noted earlier, but the format has always been broader than its loudest examples.
    — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 15 July 2026
Definition of carried
Verb
  • The surveillance program remains active, and mosquito control operations are being conducted in areas the virus activity has been detected.
    — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
  • The first and most important thing to remember is that both people — but especially Bellingham — will have conducted their post-match duties in a state of physical and emotional exhaustion.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of conducted
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  • Sour cream frosting is softer and won’t hold its shape as definitively when piped.
    — Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 14 July 2026
  • Those included a charmingly cluttered Bucket family home, a lush candyland with the smell of chocolate piped through the Royal Theater to complement the full-size mock chocolate river, and a glass elevator that flew above the audience.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Definition of piped

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