nab

🇺🇸 /næb/ 🇬🇧 /næb/
Frequency
Difficulty
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verb
R

To capture or seize someone who has done something illegal.

The police nabbed the thief as he was trying to escape.

R

To take something that belongs to someone else without permission.

I can't find my pencil; someone must have nabbed it.

translation

v. To capture or seize someone who has done something illegal.; To take something that belongs to someone else without permission.

Word Forms

3rd Present nabs
Past nabbed
Perfect nabbed
Progressive nabbing