Also with away. transitive. To take forcible possession of (something belonging to another person); to steal. Now chiefly Scottish.

To take with force; to capture, seize upon (a person or his goods). Obsolete.

To take possession of by force; to capture (a city); to take as plunder.

transitive and intransitive. To take or seize (something) by force (cf. rape, n.3 1). In early use occasionally of an animal: †to seize or devour…

To usurp, arrogate, or take by force (power, a right, etc.); to assume forcibly (a dignity or… Const. away, from (also in early use with dative), o…

transitive. To obtain from a reluctant person by violence, torture, intimidation, or abuse of legal… with object money, payments, etc. Also absol.…

transitive. To regain, recover by force (a person or thing).

transitive. To take (something) from a person by force; to wrest (something) from a person. Obsolete.

To obtain or take by force; to win by violence; to draw forth (literal and figurative) as a necessary consequence; to extort, elicit. Also, to force…

transferred. To seize upon, take possession of, by force.

To pull or draw with a wrench or twist; to twist or wrest out; to force, turn, etc., by a twisting movement. To seize or take forcibly; = wrest, v. 4.