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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (4)

1. deprive of by deceit;
- Example: "He swindled me out of my inheritance"
- Example: "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"
- Example: "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
[syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]

2. make off with belongings of others;
[syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]

3. take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom;
- Example: "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
[syn: kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch]

4. disable by drugging;
- Example: "nobble the race horses"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

nobble
    v 1: 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,
         nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
         gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
    2: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage,
       purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook,
       sneak, filch, nobble, lift]
    3: 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, nobble, abduct,
       snatch]
    4: disable by drugging; "nobble the race horses"