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.
- outputtingSending data outward
- ejectThrow out forcibly
- secreteRelease from cells
- dischargeRelease of substance outward
- emitRelease outward
giving off · extrude · expel · exude · spew · excreting · release · rolling off · lactating · confessing · birthing · exhaling · streaming · production · venting · letting off steam · transmitting · expressing
pumping outfilling up
Making full to capacity
pouring in · flooding · injecting · infusing · introducing
pumping outholding back
Preventing forward movement
withholding · suppressing · throttling · stemming · stifling
pumping outfilling
Material placed within
filling up · retaining · keeping in · accumulating · storing
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