pumping out

Draining with machinery

Pumping out means producing or releasing something in large quantities, often with mechanical efficiency or relentless energy: The factory was pumping out widgets twenty-four hours a day, She's been pumping out novels at an impressive rate.

The phrase suggests continuous, high-volume output.

To pump out a flooded space is to remove water using a pump: We spent the morning pumping out the basement.

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giving off · extrude · expel · exude · spew · excreting · release · rolling off · lactating · confessing · birthing · exhaling · streaming · production · venting · letting off steam · transmitting · expressing

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Opposites
fluid direction

pumping outfilling up

Making full to capacity

pouring in · flooding · injecting · infusing · introducing

production/output volume

pumping outholding back

Preventing forward movement

withholding · suppressing · throttling · stemming · stifling

accumulation state

pumping outfilling

Material placed within

filling up · retaining · keeping in · accumulating · storing

Family

pump, pumps, pumped, pumping, out, outing, outings, outer, outermost

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G