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 — 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 off with — phrasal to take away; especially grab, steal … New Collegiate Dictionary
make off with — verb to steal something and run … Wiktionary
make off with — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. abduct, rob, kiDNAp; see steal … English dictionary for students
make off with — steal and escape … English contemporary dictionary
make off — v. (d; intr.) to make off with ( to steal and take away ) (the thieves made off with the silverware) * * * [ meɪk ɒf] (d; intr.) to make off with (the thieves made off with the silverware; to steal and take away ) … Combinatory dictionary
make away with — {v.}, {informal} Take; carry away; cause to disappear. * /The lumberjack made away with a great stack of pancakes./ * /Two masked men held up the clerk and made away with the payroll./ Compare: MAKE OFF … Dictionary of American idioms
