pump out sth
— phrasal verb with pump uk/pʌmp/us/pʌmp/verb
If someone's stomach is pumped out, a poisonous substance is removed from it by being sucked through a tube:
She had to go to hospital to have her stomach pumped out.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Taking things away from someone or somewhere
- appropriate
- confiscate
- cream sth/sb off
- de-
- debug
- denude
- drain
- impound
- infringe on/upon sth
- knock
- knock sth out of sb
- nab
- relieve
- shelf
- strip sb of sth
- suck
- suck sb/sth dry idiom
- sweep
- take sth out
- tow
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Removing and extracting
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