NOBBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nobble mean? 

• NOBBLE (verb)
  The verb NOBBLE has 4 senses:

1. deprive of by deceit

2. make off with belongings of others

3. take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

4. disable by drugging

  Familiarity information: NOBBLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOBBLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they nobble    ... he / she / it nobbles   
Past simple: nobbled   
Past participle: nobbled   
-ing form: nobbling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deprive of by deceit

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize

Context example:

She defrauded the customers who trusted her

Hypernyms (to "nobble" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "nobble"):

short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sentence example:

They nobble him of all his money

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make off with belongings of others

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

abstract; cabbage; filch; hook; lift; nobble; pilfer; pinch; purloin; snarf; sneak; swipe

Hypernyms (to "nobble" is one way to...):

rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sentence example:

They nobble the goods

Sense 3

Meaning:

Take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

abduct; kidnap; nobble; snatch

Context example:

The industrialist's son was kidnapped

Hypernyms (to "nobble" is one way to...):

seize (take or capture by force)

Domain category:

crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "nobble"):

impress; shanghai (take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Disable by drugging

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

nobble the race horses

Hypernyms (to "nobble" is one way to...):

disable; disenable; incapacitate (make unable to perform a certain action)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something