shanghaiing 1 of 2

noun

Definition of shanghaiingnext
as in impressment

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shanghaiing

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verb

present participle of shanghai
1
as in waylaying

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2
as in deceiving

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shanghaiing
  1. impressment
  2. deceiving
  3. capturing
  4. seizure
  5. seizing
  6. abducting
  7. fooling
  8. scheming
Noun
  • The United States declared war on Great Britain after more incidents of naval impressment, trade restrictions, and the British attack of the Chesapeake.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 14 Nov. 2024
  • In fact, by the late summer of 1812, the British had eliminated the orders in council, leaving impressment as the only unresolved issue of any consequence.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2012
Definition of impressment
Verb
  • Arizona's temperature can be deceiving and deadly.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • As Soon As This Week That number is certainly deceiving, though.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of deceiving
Verb
  • In the second half of 2024, in particular, the stock struggled to gain traction amid concerns that its data center AI chip was not capturing as much market share as hoped.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The group uses an audio lure to entice the birds, capturing them in mist nets to bring back to the banding station.
    Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of capturing
Noun
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin's seizure of Crimea, combined with his ambitious modernization program for Russia's armed forces, had to change how the U.S. government viewed Moscow.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • In Kansas City, just one seizure last year netted enough fentanyl to potentially kill more than 5 million people.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of seizure
Verb
  • Pretending to be dead, Gi-hun and his friends launch a surprise attack, overpowering the guards and seizing their weapons, leaving only one guard alive.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
  • The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) forces have since received training by Russian forces in the Far East and first engaged in combat with Ukrainian military in November, subsequently seizing their first village in Kursk, Plekhovo, earlier this month.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of seizing
Verb
  • While speaking about immigration, the former president repeated a story that had been circulating on social media that alleged that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were abducting and eating people's pets.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Those pledges have been paired with a number of false claims about migrants, including the amplification of a conspiracy theory that accused Haitian migrants of abducting and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
    Juliann Ventura, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of abducting
Verb
  • Liverpool are regularly seeing apps that replicate the appearance of genuine tickets — fooling not just first-time visitors to Anfield.
    James Pearce, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate aim is, with the use of multiple layers of such transformations, fooling malware classifiers into thinking malicious code is, in fact, totally benign.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of fooling
Verb
  • But the biggest threats come from billionaire corporate land developers and scheming local government officials, eager to get their greedy hands on all that gorgeous acreage to build casinos, resort hotels, golf courses, and the like.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In two different filings in New York and Texas last month, Drake accused UMG – which distributes music for both Drake and Lamar – of scheming to popularize Lamar's diss track, which in turn allegedly harmed Drake and his businesses.
    KiMi Robinson, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of scheming
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