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Nobble (Verb)

Make off with belongings of others.

Verbs of buying, selling, owning.

The thief managed to nobble several handbags from unsuspecting tourists in the crowded area.
Pickpockets are known to nobble wallets and phones from people in busy shopping districts.
She had her phone nobbled from her hands while taking a selfie near a popular landmark.
The cunning con artist nobbled a woman's purse and quickly disappeared into the crowd.
A group of thieves nobbled valuables from beachgoers while they were distracted by the waves.

Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her";.

Verbs of political and social activities and events.

Her dubious business dealings inevitably led to her being investigated for nobbling investors out of their hard-earned savings.
The city was on high alert as reports of a scam artist surfaced, accused of nobbling tourists out of their valuables.
A dishonest developer was caught nobbling investors of their funds meant for a housing project.
Allegations emerged that the director nobbled its competitors in order to secure a lucrative business deal.
He was charged with nobbling donors out of millions of dollars that were supposed to be used for charity.

Take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The rival party attempted to nobble the opposing candidate's bodyguards on election day.
Several key witnesses were nobbled by the defendant before they could testify in court.
The company's lawyers accused the hackers of using strong-armed tactics to nobble their executives for millions of dollars.
The police launched an investigation into the missing union leader who sources claimed had been nobbled by the mine owners.
Evidence emerged that numerous voting officials had been nobbled before the vote on the unpopular zoning development.

Disable by drugging; "nobble the race horses".

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

The suspect was accused of bribing someone to nobble the favorite to win in the upcoming major horse racing event by secretly feeding it a substance that would slow it down.
Unbeknownst to the owners, several of the horses in the competition had been nobbled to reduce their chances of winning.
The authorities investigated reports that several competing horses had been nobbled in an effort to fix the results of the high-stakes racing tournament.
The trainer was banned for life after it was discovered that he had tried to nobble a rival horse in order to secure his own victory.
There were allegations of foul play as it was discovered a highly-ranked competitor's horse had been nobbled just hours before the championship finals began.