nobble

verbs

deprive of by deceit

"He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize

make off with belongings of others

abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe

take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

"The industrialist's son was kidnapped"

abduct, kidnap, nobble, snatch

disable by drugging

"nobble the race horses"

nobble

is a type of (narrower)

make unable to perform a certain action

"disable this command on your computer"