· deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her";
Synonym(s): victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con
Hypernym(s): cheat, rip_off, chisel
· make off with belongings of others
Synonym(s): pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, lift
Hypernym(s): steal, rip_off, rip
· take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
Synonym(s): kidnap, abduct, snatch
Hypernym(s): seize
· disable by drugging; "nobble the race horses"
Hypernym(s): disable, disenable, incapacitate