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shanghai

verb as in kidnap

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Example Sentences

A schemer and her henchmen shanghai two book salesmen for a diamond safari in Africa.

“We should engage in careful dialogue to decide the best action. Let us not be shanghaied into a rash move for being labeled.”

I consider trying to catch part of the show, but am afraid that if I cross the lot I’ll get shanghaied into some other task.

A pirate shanghais a teenager who missed the plane to join his girlfriend on an island.

On the Rena, we were no longer his flesh and blood, but a crew of landlubberly scum shanghaied from the taverns and fleshpots of many exotic ports.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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