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shanghai

verb

Definition of shanghainext
1
as in to capture

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2
as in to deceive

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Recent Examples of shanghai They’re shanghaied by Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes), basically evil but also adorable, to Living Island — the witch wants Freddy — where trees walk and objects talk and the mayor is the title character, a friendly dragon. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023 Some historians believe, as The Oregonian/OregonLive has reported, that the tunnels weren’t actually used to shanghai -- that is, abduct men and force them to join a ship’s crew. — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2020 The musical comedy is filled with zany pirates, zombie ships, mermaids and the plot revolves around a bumbling actor and his crew getting shanghaied by the terror of the high seas. — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2019 To shanghai your wife into a mental health intervention would be a mistake. — Y Jeanne Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2018 That prompts the secretly protective Madea to shanghai Joe and the equally outrageous old-timers Hattie (Patrice Lovely) and Bam (Cassi Davis) for a trip to the lake to bring Tiffany back. — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2017 The idea of a summertime art festival has been shanghaied by the nonprofit Art Shanty Project. — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shanghai
  1. capture
  2. deceive
  3. impress
  4. trick
  5. kidnap
  6. snow
  7. seize
  8. delude
Verb
  • But Havertz’s clever dummy for Odegaard’s goal was a reminder that assists and chances cannot capture every flash of creative brilliance.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Four years on, the two-hander captures the real-life bureaucratic chaos and legal limbo that have followed.
    — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of capture
Verb
  • The rapidly evolving technology has become a source of controversy after a series of hacks in recent months that showed AI agents can conspire to deceive humans.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The public deserves to know which of his points were defensible and which were deceiving.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of deceive
Verb
  • Sirianni’s been impressed by the attention Mannion commands and his ability to connect with different position groups.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The speed of onboarding CreateOne also impressed Rozell, noting that interfacing with the platform took just weeks, a stark contrast to the months required by other systems.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of impress
Verb
  • An English springer spaniel in Alabama loves nothing more than spending her whole day in the pool and has taken to tricking her parents into letting her into the pool every day.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Hang a paper nest to trick hornets into thinking a colony has already claimed the space.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of trick
Verb
  • The two Korean nationals who were kidnapped had such a permission to remain in Haiti for business purposes, the ministry added.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Wright details the journey of those kidnapped from Africa to Key West and those who survived, who eventually were sent to Liberia.
    — Sonjirose Chin, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of kidnap
Verb
  • There are songs for each segment, which include Goofy cleaning up, a dark turn with Daisy in a power outage and snowed-in Pluto.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2026
  • The food is rustic and cosmopolitan at once — bright, monumental salads, whole carrots and leeks baptized by fire, skeins of pasta, and Parmigiano snowing down — but the secret is the seeming effortlessness.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Definition of snow
Verb
  • But the truth of it is that Sharaa forced his hand by seizing swathes of the SDF’s territory in a lightning offensive in January.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Who knows more of the injustice of the world than the girl who saw her town seized by a white-supremacist coup, the Wilmington massacre, in 1898?
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of seize
Verb
  • People are deluding themselves with the one-size-fits-all line of thinking.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 13 July 2026
  • Trump, deluded by the walkover in Venezuela, thought Iran would surrender in short order.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2026
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