of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.
     catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a
long arm, stretch forth one’s hand.
     take from, take away from; disseize[obs3]; deduct &c. 38; retrench &c.
(curtail) 201; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one’s grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.
     oust &c. (eject) 297; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester,
sequestrate; accroach[obs3]; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume[obs3], impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb &c. (suck in) 296; draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.
     retake, resume; recover &c. 775. 
     Adj. taking &c.v.; privative[obs3], prehensile; predaceous,
predal[obs3], predatory, predatorial[obs3]; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic.
     bereft &c. 776. 
     Adv. at one fell swoop. 
     Phr. give an inch and take an ell.

     #790.  Restitution.—­ N. restitution, return; rendition,
reddition[obs3]; restoration; reinvestment, recuperation; rehabilitation &c. (reconstruction) 660; reparation, atonement; compensation, indemnification.
     release, replevin[Law], redemption; recovery &c. (getting back) 775;
remitter, reversion. 
     V. return, restore; give back, carry back, bring back; render, render
up; give up; let go, unclutch; disgorge, regorge[obs3]; regurgitate; recoup, reimburse, compensate, indemnify; remit, rehabilitate; repair &c. (make good) 660.
     [transitive] reinvest, revest, reinstate.
     redeem, recover &c. (get back) 775; take back again.
     [intransitive] revest, revert. 
     Adj. restoring &c. v.; recuperative &c. 660. 
     Phr. suum cuique[Lat].

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     #791.  Stealing.—­ N. stealing &c. v.; theft, thievery, latrociny|,
direption[obs3]; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism[obs3]; latrocinium[obs3].
     spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage[obs3]; rapine, brigandage,
foray, razzia[obs3], rape, depredation, raid; blackmail.
     piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of
marque, letters of mark and reprisal.
     filibustering, filibusterism[obs3]; burglary; housebreaking; badger
game*.
     robbery, highway robbery, hold-up* [U.S.], mugging.
     peculation, embezzlement; fraud &c. 545; larceny, petty larceny, grand
larceny, shoplifting.
     thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia[obs3], den of Cacus, den
of thieves.
     blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand [U.S.].
     [person who commits theft] thief &c. 792.