nobble

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- The industrialist's son was kidnapped
• Syn:
kidnap, abduct, snatch
• Derivationally related forms:
snatch (for: snatch), snatcher (for: snatch), abduction (for: abduct), abductor (for: abduct), kidnapper (for: kidnap), kidnapping (for: kidnap), kidnaper (for: kidnap)
• Topics:
crime, offense, criminal offense, criminal offence, offence, law-breaking
• Hypernyms:
seize
• Hyponyms:
shanghai, impress
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. make off with belongings of others
• Syn:
pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract,
snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, lift
• Derivationally related forms:
lifter (for: lift), cabbage (for: cabbage), pilferer (for: pilfer), pilferage (for: pilfer)
• Hypernyms:
steal
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something from somebody
- They nobble the goods
3. deprive of by deceit
- He swindled me out of my inheritance
- She defrauded the customers who trusted her
- the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
• Syn:
victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, diddle,
bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip,
hornswoggle, short-change, con
• Derivationally related forms:
con (for: con), gyp (for: gyp), scammer (for: scam), scam (for: scam), defrauder (for: defraud), bunco (for: bunco), swindler (for: swindle), swindle (for: swindle), victimization (for: victimize)
• Hypernyms:
cheat, rip off, chisel
• Hyponyms:
short-change, short
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
- They nobble him of all his money
4. disable by drugging
- nobble the race horses
• Hypernyms:
disable, disenable, incapacitate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  kidnap, abduct, snatch