WordNet
Usage examples of "siphon off".
What she intended to do was to walk into the ruins, to bypass the fire threads and creepers that had so easily bested the Mwellrets but would be less effective against her, to gain entry into Castledown, to locate and siphon off the magic of the books that were concealed there, and to escape.
The method was clever and effective: let the victim think himself still free, make him fight to stay that way, and siphon off the power of the magic he used to do so.
Through a variety of complicated ruses I obtained a clearance into the unfinished system, created a hidden subsystem that would siphon off memory and juggle the figures to hide that fact, and moved my experiment there—.
Through a variety of complicated ruses I obtained a clearance into the unfinished system, created a hidden subsystem that would siphon off memory and juggle the figures to hide that fact, and moved my experiment there-an electronic Ararat on which my ark could find safe harbor, if you'll excuse a rather ripe metaphor.
He had been bound to Evy by a link between their auras, so that he could siphon off the apprentice's vitality at will to feed his own.
He needed to touch Azhdeen's riot of rainbow colors, feel the dragon's pride of possession as he conversed with his human, siphon off some of the dragon's supreme confidence to bolster his own.
He is there waiting with his empty tanks to siphon off whatever comes bubbling up and sell it back to the independent refineries.
There is a constant caravan of water carts going miles to siphon off the streams and rivers they find.
Now we're going to have to siphon off all that radioactive water, and take the core apart by remotes, and make sure the propellant flow cylinders haven't been damaged in the heat.
That way they could siphon off power from either of them and balance the load rather than have to choose between draining one of the other systems completely or doing without the sternwall.
We don't have confirmation that Pritchart and Theisman have continued the same level of funding, but the discrepancy between what their revenues ought to be and what they're reporting certainly seems to suggest that some 'black project' is continuing to siphon off an awful lot of cash.
He was halfway down his beat, on the Watt-to-Jordan Street strip, when the usual afternoon crush on the sidewalk started to siphon off around the corner ahead and into Watt Street.
He had been bound to Evy by a link between their auras, so that he could siphon off the apprentices vitality at will to feed his own.
But without it there would be no ships, no guns, no screens, no ambush, no wealth to siphon off to House Tregesser.