they made off with all the wedding gifts
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make off with — index carry away, despoil, hijack, hold up (rob), loot, pilfer, poach Burton s Legal Thesaurus … Law dictionary
make off with — PHRASAL VERB If you make off with something, you steal it and take it away with you. [V P P n] Masked robbers broke in and made off with $8,000 … English dictionary
make off with — phr verb Make off with is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑robber, ↑thief … Collocations dictionary
make off with — take away, take without permission The boys made off with his toys. They took all his cars and trucks … English idioms
make off with — 1. Take away, carry off. 2. Steal, pilfer, filch, purloin, cabbage … New dictionary of synonyms
make off with — carry away illicitly. → make … English new terms dictionary
make off with — to steal Standard English. It is never your own property, or wife, that you take with you … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
make away with — another way of saying make off with. ↘ kill (someone). → make … English new terms dictionary
make off with — phrasal to take away; especially grab, steal … New Collegiate Dictionary
make off with — verb to steal something and run … Wiktionary
