shanghais

verb

present tense third-person singular of shanghai
1
as in abducts

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2
as in hoodwinks

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shanghais
  1. abducts
  2. hoodwinks
  3. captures
  4. tricks
  5. seizes
  6. kids
  7. kidnaps
  8. deceives
Verb
  • The authorities take her to the hospital, where a man pretending to be a social worker nearly drugs and abducts her.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • As Fisk's anti-vigilante task force abducts dissidents off the street, locking them away in an undisclosed warehouse full of cages, Daredevil (Charlie Cox) becomes a symbol of rebellion for those willing to fight back.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
Definition of abducts
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  • Amarildo instantly controls a quick throw-in, skips away from one Czech defender, hoodwinks another with a hip-swerve and, spotting keeper Schrojf off his line, fires the ball in at the near post.
    — Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Definition of hoodwinks
Verb
  • To work around this biological limit, a team from the Beijing Institute of Technology built a system that captures infrared light and converts it into electrical charges.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Working with a Master Fitter, golfers hit a series of putts using a variety of putter styles while a TrackMan launch monitor captures key performance data.
    — Jeff Goudy, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of captures
Verb
  • Lord Ormund’s Gambit Lord Ormund has many, many tricks up his green sleeves.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • In effect, RedHook tricks the phone into connecting to its own powerful debugging controls, giving the malware deeper access without a computer.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of tricks
Verb
  • Better, Cretton seizes small moments to put his stamp on this installment.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
  • Rhaenyra, queen of the Blacks, seizes the Iron Throne in King’s Landing with the support of Alicent, who has simply had enough of her unstable and terrible sons.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 July 2026
Definition of seizes
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  • Running under the surface of the film is the anxiety that kids his age are lucky to secure any job, even one as low-paying and exploitative as Erika’s studio assistant.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
  • Idaho law mandates that kids age 14 or younger wear a life jacket on the water, according to the city.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 22 June 2026
Definition of kids
Verb
  • The name has Biblical undertones and refers to a theory that Adam (of Adam and Eve) had a first wife named Lilith, who committed adultery with Satan and transformed into an evil being who kidnaps children.
    — Katie Mather, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026
  • But there’s a version of Blaze’s playtime with Jessie where Smarty served as the twist villain in her spy story, and kidnaps the Tamagotchi, who was a baby in the playtime.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 June 2026
Definition of kidnaps
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  • The complaint also claims that the image deceives customers into thinking Lipa has endorsed the product and dilutes her brand identity.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 11 May 2026
  • The fragmentary Ni 12501 tablet from the Early Dynastic III period of Mesopotamia breaks off when Fox deceives the inhabitants of the netherworld in his quest to retrieve the storm god Ishkur.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Definition of deceives
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