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Meanings of nobble in English

Portuguese
fraudar
Catalan
defraudar
Spanish
embaucar

Deprive of by deceit.

fraudar
Portuguese
roubar
Catalan
furtar
Spanish
afanar

Make off with belongings of others.

roubar
Portuguese
raptar
Catalan
raptar
Spanish
raptar

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

raptar
Synonyms
Examples for "snatch"
Examples for "snatch"
1
Paula was absolutely right: Valean could not be allowed to snatch Laril.
The evolutionary void
2
They may well have been trying to snatch a vehicle, he said.
Reuters
3
I could see him beginning to snatch up all the available rationalizations.
Ghost Story
4
That's why you have the power to snatch me away from Earth.
The Naked God
5
I thought for sure she would snatch the bird from the air.
Promise of the wolves: a novel
1
The FARC holds hundreds of kidnap victims for ransom and political leverage.
Reuters
2
The police said that whoever had done this would kidnap another victim.
Haunted: a novel of stories
3
People are going hungry and those with money feel threatened by kidnap.
Reuters
4
They were able to kidnap one Frenchman, Amin told The Associated Press.
The Irish Times
5
How about answering my first question -why would anyone kidnap you?
The Sword of Shannara
1
Rights groups accuse him of using armed squads to abduct suspected separatists.
Reuters
2
Why should his late majesty abduct the daughter of the grand duke?
The Goose Girl
3
And I never did abduct and sell into slavery any negro persons!
Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
4
The intention had been only to abduct him from Turkey, the sources said.
Radio NZ
5
But you were right this morning, when you said you'd been abducted.
Zoya
Usage of nobble in English
1
With a little luck he hopes to nobble a few more this afternoon.
The Soul of the War
2
We were going well and if you wanted to nobble someone who would you nobble?
The Guardian
3
Which means I nobble him absolutely as soon as I can, first thing in the morning.
The Atrocity Archives
4
Both Professor Littlewood and Mr Riley agreed that greater transparency will nobble New Zealand's growing foreign trust industry.
Radio NZ
5
Attempts had been made to "nobble" a referee.
The Irish Times
6
There was a particular old Labour grandee who used to nobble me in order to give me 'sound advice'.
A journey: my political life
7
She did it for Ronnie a while back when there was talk of someone trying to nobble his horses.
Enchanted Glass
8
Such things could well and truly nobble a band from the outset, but Edinburgh's Broken Records seem to be made of sterner stuff.
The Irish Times
9
If you don't want a mutual admiration society, which dies as soon as you've all discovered each other's faults, you must nobble the Press.
Night and Day
10
The suspicion is that the Treasury was simply nobbled by bookies' lobbyists.
The Guardian
11
Nobble they thought was the foulest place which they had ever seen.
John Caldigate
12
If anybody had done well at Nobble, Mr. Crinkett had done well.
John Caldigate
13
Then Downing Street briefed about how it had nobbled the foreign secretary.
The Guardian
14
Environmental lawyer Simon Berry said DOC had been 'nobbled' by the previous government.
Radio NZ
15
More art: how litigation and forgeries are nobbling the art trade.
The Irish Times
16
She could not account for the absence of the Nobble postmark.
John Caldigate