the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > as if by milking or siphoning (2)
transitive. To elicit (something), to draw out; to extract or extort (money, advantage, information, etc.) from a person, business, situation, etc…
figurative. To draw off or from, as if by means of a siphon; to divert. Const. adverbs (chiefly off: spec. illicitly, of money) and prepositions.