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How to sign: take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
"The industrialist's son was kidnapped";
Similiar / Same: kidnap, abduct, snatch
Categories: seize
Within this category: shanghai
How to sign: make off with belongings of others
Similiar / Same: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, snarf, filch, abstract, swipe, pinch, sneak, hook, lift
Categories: steal
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: swindle, rook, goldbrick, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con, victimize
Categories: cheat, chisel, rip off
Within this category: short-change
