abduct
verb
to take someone away from their home, family etc using force
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to make someone give you money or do what you want by threatening to tell people embarrassing information about them
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if a criminal cases a place, such as a bank, they watch it and look around it to help them plan their crime
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if a man flashes, he commits the crime of showing his sex organs in public in order to frighten or upset people
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to illegally copy documents, paper money, or works of art with the intention of cheating people
to be a person or company that hides an illegal or secret activity for another person or organization
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to illegally take someone away and make them a prisoner, especially in order to make their family or government give you money or allow you to do what you want
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to hide the origin of money obtained from illegal activities by putting it into legal businesses
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to take someone or something secretly and illegally into or out of a country, especially as a way of earning money
to help someone to commit a crime
to commit the illegal act of behaving in a noisy way in public, especially late at night
to show your sex organs to someone in a public place because you have a mental problem
to fail to return to court for your trial
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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