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take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
The industrialist's son was kidnapped
(verb) abstract, filch, hook, snarf, sneak, swipe, cabbage, pilfer, pinch, purloin, lift
make off with belongings of others
(verb) hornswoggle, goldbrick, gip, gyp, bunco, short-change, scam, rook, con, diddle, defraud, swindle, mulct, victimize
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