siphon

Proponents of a ban broadly see cousin marriage as an instrument of segregation, siphoning people off from the rest of society.

He also severed ties with former mentor Kanye West when he ran for president, suspecting it was part of a wider Trump campaign to "siphon" black people's votes away from the Democrats.

“Resources are siphoned away from proven public health measures into counterproductive enforcement, and the stigma of criminalization pushes key target populations away from the very services they could most benefit from.”

"Can you believe that universities with tens of billions in endowments were siphoning off 60% of research award money for 'overhead'?" Musk wrote on X. "What a ripoff!"

Trump has even recently talked about siphoning water from Canada for California.