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
  • The chain of events that led to another extermination began when Lauren Cohan’s Maggie and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan captured their season 2 nemesis, the Dama (Lisa Emery), after the big bad had her men attack them.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026
  • But nothing has quite captured the pure animalististic terror of the moment in this episode when Rhaena, Daemon, Rhaenyra and Addam all come face-to-face, dragon-to-dragon.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of capture
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  • That March, Stewart was convicted of conspiring with her Merrill Lynch stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic, to deceive authorities probing her December 2001 sale of the ImClone stock.
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The task force suggests that altering the physical environment, such as putting up nets, barriers to force drones into different flight paths, and making one’s surroundings appear uninteresting from the air can deceive drones.
    — Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of deceive
Verb
  • The receiver drafted out of Ole Miss continued to impress during practice Wednesday, catching multiple passes in team drills from starting quarterback Brock Purdy and leaping high for an acrobatic grab over the middle from reserve Adrian Martinez.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2026
  • Chicago blues especially impressed the young generation of British musicians who began performing what became known as British blues in the 1950s and ’60s.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
Definition of impress
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  • Lord Ormund’s Gambit Lord Ormund has many, many tricks up his green sleeves.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, there has been a slew of viral videos on TikTok and other social media platforms in which users allegedly show how to trick the monitoring systems for the exam.
    — Mauricio Torres, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of trick
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  • Two ransom notes purportedly sent by those who kidnapped Nancy Guthrie in Arizona earlier this year were released Friday by local authorities hoping to generate new leads in the case.
    — Tom Winter, NBC news, 1 Aug. 2026
  • He reportedly was kidnapped by a bearded man driving a blue Ford van, and later, his remains were found in a canal off Florida’s Turnpike in Indian River County.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 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
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  • The pivotal moment occurred when Randy Orton made a shocking return, delivering an RKO to Cody Rhodes, which allowed Punk to seize the opportunity and secure the pinfall.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The 12th-century castle, also known as Al-Shaqif, was seized by Israeli forces in May.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of seize
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  • 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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