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UK
/nˈɒbəl/
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VERB
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deprive of by deceit
He swindled me out of my inheritance
She defrauded the customers who trusted her - make off with belongings of others
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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 -
disable by drugging
nobble the race horses
How To Use nobble In A Sentence
- A pretty feeble ruse, perhaps, but it works. which might work except the nobble is pretty damned big ... that's the problems; and then there's writing as avoidance of writing (kinda like this post!): Writer's Block
- Hamstrung by his uncle, he was having to go through an exasperating charade in order to nobble the project. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
- But it is much harder to nobble 12 independent jurors than it is to bribe or intimidate one judge.
- On the other hand, perhaps they saw the law on presidential elections as a chance to nobble their rivals before they even got to the start line.
- Sadly, one suspects, neither they nor al-Fayed will be put off: instead we shall probably be treated to another ten or twenty years of yet more ludicrous theories about the crash and how the Inquest was nobbled etc. etc., each theory yet more wacko than the last. You're Paying For This, So Enjoy It!
- 'May the foul fiend, booted and spurred, ride down his bawling throat with a scythe at his girdle,' quoth Albert Drawslot; 'here have I been telling him that all the marks were those of a buck of the first head, and he has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler! Waverley — Volume 1
- Juror was 'nobbled' in Liverpool gangster Curtis Warren trial, Court of Appeal hears next IcLiverpool
- Overcrowded classrooms and the challenges of accommodating myriad different languages will nobble attempts to drive up standards. The Sun
- If they knew he'd been "nobbled," they'd greatly rejoice; Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892
- nobble the race horses
