Synonyms of the word

nobble

• v. (Britain, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intentionally.
• v. (Britain, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation.
• v. (Britain, slang) To steal.

abduct

• v. (transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence…
• v. (transitive, physiology) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position; to move similar…

abstract

• n. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
• n. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
• n. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
• n. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
• n. (art) An abstract work of art.
• n. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of…
• adj. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
• adj. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
• adj. Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
• adj. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general,…
• adj. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
• adj. (archaic) Absent-minded.
• adj. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships…
• adj. Insufficiently factual.
• adj. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
• adj. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
• adj. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than…
• v. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
• v. (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
• v. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
• v. (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically;…
• v. (intransitive, reflexive, literally figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
• v. (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
• v. (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
• v. (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used…

bunco

• n. (US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.
• n. A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women…
• n. brigand.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).

cabbage

• n. An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
• n. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
• n. (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
• n. Used as a term of endearment.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Money.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
• n. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
• n. The cabbage palmetto.
• v. (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally…
• v. (transitive) To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

chisel

• n. Gravel.
• n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
• n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
• v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
• v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

con

• v. (rare) To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.
• v. (rare, archaic) To know, understand, acknowledge.
• v. Variant spelling of conn: to conduct the movements of a ship at sea.
• n. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
• n. (computing) A reserved word in MS-DOS applications, likely an abbreviation for console.
• n. (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
• n. (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal,…
• v. (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
• v. (nautical) To give the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in the required direction through…
• n. (nautical) The navigational direction of a ship.
• n. An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.

defraud

• v. (transitive) To obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle.

diddle

• n. (music) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the…
• n. (slang, childish) The penis.
• v. (transitive) to cheat; to swindle.
• v. (transitive) to have sex with.
• v. (transitive) to masturbate (especially of women).
• v. (transitive) to waste time.
• v. (intransitive) To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.

disable

• v. (transitive) To render unable; to take away an ability of.
• v. (chiefly of a person) To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.
• v. to deactivate a function of an electronical or mechanical device.
• adj. (obsolete) Lacking ability; unable.

disenable

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To disable; to disqualify.

filch

• v. (transitive) To illegally take possession of (especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
• n. Something which has been filched or stolen.
• n. An act of filching; larceny, theft.
• n. (obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.
• n. (obsolete) A hooked stick used to filch objects.

gip

• v. Alternative form of gyp.
• n. A servant; a gyp.
• v. To take out the entrails of (herrings).

goldbrick

• n. A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; (figuratively) a swindle, a con.
• n. (US slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.
• n. (US slang, dated) A swindler.
• v. (US slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.
• v. (US slang, dated) To swindle.

gyp

• n. (pejorative, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
• n. Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
• v. (pejorative, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A college servant.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) The room in which such college servants work.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A small kitchen for use by college students.
• n. Gypsophila.
• n. Pain or discomfort.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

hornswoggle

• v. (transitive) To deceive or trick.

incapacitate

• v. (transitive) to make incapable (of doing something).

kidnap

• v. (transitive) To seize and detain a person unlawfully; sometimes for ransom.
• n. An instance of kidnapping.

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

mulct

• n. (law) A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
• v. To impose such a fine or penalty.
• v. To swindle (someone) out of money.

pilfer

• v. To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.

pinch

• v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
• v. To squeeze between two objects.
• v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
• v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
• v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
• v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
• v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
• v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
• v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
• v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
• v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
• v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
• n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
• n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
• n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

purloin

• v. (transitive) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to…
• v. (intransitive) To commit theft; to thieve.

rook

• n. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
• n. A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
• n. (Britain) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
• n. A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• n. (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally)…
• n. (rare) A castle or other fortification.
• n. (baseball, slang) A rookie.
• n. mist; fog; roke.
• v. (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.
• v. Eye dialect spelling of look.

scam

• n. A fraudulent deal.
• n. Something that is promoted using scams.
• v. (transitive) To defraud or embezzle.

seize

• v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
• v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
• v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
• v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
• v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
• v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

short-change

• v. Alternative form of shortchange.

snarf

• v. (transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily.
• v. (transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take…
• v. (transitive, slang) To expel fluid or food through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting…
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.

snatch

• v. To grasp quickly.
• v. To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch.
• v. To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
• v. To grasp and remove quickly.
• v. To steal.
• v. (by extension) To take a victory at the last moment.
• v. To do something quickly due to limited time available.
• n. A quick grab or catch.
• n. (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked…
• n. A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
• n. (vulgar slang) A vulva.
• n. The handle of a scythe; a snead.

sneak

• n. One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
• n. A cheat; a con artist; a trickster.
• n. An informer; a tell-tale.
• n. (obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter.
• n. (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
• v. (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who…
• v. (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
• v. (transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
• v. (intransitive) (informal, especially with on) To inform an authority about another's misdemeanours; to…
• adj. In advance; before release to the general public.
• adj. In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.

steal

• v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
• v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
• v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
• v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
• v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
• v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
• v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
• v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
• n. The act of stealing.
• n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
• n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
• n. (baseball) A stolen base.
• n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
• n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

swindle

• v. (transitive) To defraud (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
• n. An instance of swindling.

swipe

• v. (transitive) To steal or snatch.
• v. (transitive) To scan or register by sliding something through a reader.
• v. (intransitive) To grab or bat quickly.
• v. (intransitive) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
• n. (countable) A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; A sweep.
• n. (countable) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
• n. (countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
• n. (uncountable) Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.

victimize

• v. To make someone a victim or sacrifice.
• v. To punish someone unjustly.
• v. To swindle or defraud someone.