transitive. To take or carry away (a person, also occasionally a soul); spec. to carry off to heaven. Also with away, from, to, etc. Now literary and…

transitive. To carry away, snatch, seize (a person), esp. by force; to drag (a person) away from a place or other person; to drag to or into a place…

To carry off, abduct, kidnap (a person) secretly. Now rare.

transitive. To entice away, kidnap (a person); to make away with, steal; = purloin, v. 1a, 2a. Also intransitive.

transitive. To carry off (a person) by force; esp. to abduct a woman, usually for the purpose of sexual violation. Frequently with away, from. Also…

transitive. = abduct, v. 2a. Now chiefly U.S.

transitive. To carry away by force. Obsolete.

Frequently, and now usually, with adverb or adverbial phrase (introduced by out of, off, etc.)… transitive. To entice away or kidnap (a person), spec.…

Originally, to steal or carry off (children or others) in order to provide servants or labourers for the American plantations; hence, in general…

transitive. To take (a person) away by force or deception, or without the consent of his or her legal guardian; to kidnap. Cf. earlier abduce, v. 1.

transitive. To get hold of, seize, catch. Also: to kidnap.

transitive. transferred. To transfer forcibly or abduct; to constrain or compel. colloquial (originally U.S. Military slang).

spec. (a) To steal, esp. by snatching; (b) slang (originally and chiefly U.S.), to kidnap.