shanghaied

verb

past tense of shanghai
1
as in captured

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2
as in tricked

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shanghaied
  1. captured
  2. tricked
  3. kidnapped
  4. hoodwinked
  5. waylaid
  6. deceived
  7. seized
  8. duped
Verb
  • Mitchell Fairbarn was captured on surveillance video carrying the 27-year-old Chilean flamingo, Peachy, to his room after removing the bird from its enclosure at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in March.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Pace said the majority of the incident, if not all, was captured on surveillance video.
    — Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of captured
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  • But a few times in recent years, Hollins, a veterinarian, tricked Jonathan and slid a cotton swab into the giant tortoise's mouth to get a saliva sample.
    — KYLE MELNICK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Those conducting the online scams are sometimes willing con artists, and other times trafficked foreign nationals -- many Chinese -- tricked themselves into work and held in prison-like compounds.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of tricked
Verb
  • The toys were not purloined, kidnapped, auctioned by Sotheby's or flipped by greedy collectors on eBay.
    — STEVE HENDRIX THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • According to multiple reports, ransom notes were sent to local media outlets just days after she was kidnapped from her Arizona home.
    — Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of kidnapped
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  • The trick is to not get hoodwinked by the illusion of a deal.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 7 June 2026
  • To this day, a portion of the left-wing Democratic elite views Obama as a charlatan who hoodwinked their voters into supporting him.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of hoodwinked
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  • With all that swirling around them, the presidential motorcade meant to bring Kate, Hal, Grace, and Todd back to Air Force One gets waylaid by protesters blocking the entrance to Heathrow airport.
    — Adam B. Vary, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026
  • In the film Rap World (which Bensinger also edited), Bensinger, O’Malley, and Rahill play suburban deadbeats eager to make an album, each man waylaid by his own hubris and distractions.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of waylaid
Verb
  • Attorneys for New Mexico argued that the state's entire population, not just Facebook users, were deceived by the company's public statements about privacy on the platform.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Attorneys for New Mexico argued that the state’s entire population, not just Facebook users, were deceived by the company’s public statements about privacy on the platform.
    — Mikella Schuettler, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of deceived
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  • In the postwar decades, humans seized ecosystems at breakneck speed—forests were felled, prairies plowed, wetlands drained.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Also unfinished are the high-speed rail and the Delta tunnel, major environmental infrastructure projects that have been seized upon by right-wing media as evidence of Newsom’s failures.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of seized
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  • Within weeks of the loan being fulfilled in early 2018, McDonnell drained the account, and the bank claimed it had been duped and alerted the authorities.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026
  • That left some Boiseans, like former city council member Sara Baker, feeling duped.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of duped
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