NOBBLE

• (verb) disable by drugging

  "nobble the race horses"

• (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

  "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"

  synonyms : abduct , kidnap , snatch

• (verb) make off with belongings of others

  synonyms : abstract , cabbage , filch , hook , lift , pilfer , pinch , purloin , snarf , sneak , swipe

  She couldn't believe he had actually abstracted the files she had so carefully hidden. -added by geeta_inlas

  too hungry to wait until the party had started, he filched a cookie from the buffet table when no one was looking -added by nithi

• (verb) 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"

  synonyms : bunco , con , defraud , diddle , gip , goldbrick , gyp , hornswoggle , mulct , rook , scam , short-change , swindle , victimize

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