shanghai
શંઘાઇ
definition
verb
Otherwise, as Hume remarks in his essay u2018Of the Original Contractu2019, it is like telling a man who has been shanghaied aboard a ship that he is free to leap into the sea and perish.
force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhanded means.
example
Or, a bowl of intense onion soup under a mantle of heat-blasted Gruyu00e8re croutons lies waiting to 'shanghai' your palate with a sneak shot of warming red pepper.
But first of all, it's not like they're going to take a helicopter down there and 'shanghai' these people to the CBS studios.
It wasn't $20 million, but it was still more money than I imagine this woman had seen in her life - a pretty good payout and hardly deterrence to other parents in the neighborhood who felt entitled to 'shanghai' the system.
Gender-hustlers in the equal Opportunities Commission sponsored over three hundred programmes to 'shanghai' women into Science and Engineering.
the springy, resilient saplings would 'shanghai' him backwards
Which begs the question: How did the film-makers 'shanghai' this many recognizable actors into such a debacle?
So right off the bat, I'm thinking this Nietzsche guy might be worth investigating, and I'm feeling pretty good about 'shanghaiing' his name - at least temporarily - for my latest exercise in metaphysical gymnastics.
Cain had made that very clear when he had 'shanghaied' them for this little errand.
This reader felt almost 'shanghaied' between Contents and Index.
Marcella 'shanghaied' him and said something about his brother being in the study and wanting to see him.
Adventure 'shanghaied' me to near disaster on the high seas.
I, for instance, listen largely to Radio National, which has in recent years been 'shanghaied' by this Government and is now less likely to present an unbiased view for fear of being sacked and general de-funding.
Doubtless the car's previous owner would be irked to discover that his car was gone, but he'd likely be amazed if he knew it was being 'shanghaied' to Mercury.
Anyone publishing it should be 'shanghaied' aboard a hell-ship and flogged through the horse latitudes.
It was probably the first time any of them had received a kind word from the panda since they had been 'shanghaied' to the crew.
To recap: last week Jack 'shanghaied' a suspect and used a taser to force him to reveal the location of the primary bad guy.
The merchant ship's hold had been emptied, and according to the crew some of their shipmates had been 'shanghaied' by the pirates.
The emotional nature of feelings about morality makes it especially vulnerable to being 'shanghaied' by baser instincts.
The night before he began his college basketball career, Anthony was 'shanghaied' along with the rest of his Syracuse teammates and was taken to a party at the New York museum on board the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier.
At the end of the afternoon the cameras came out, and a waiter was 'shanghaied' to take the group photo.
Voluntary - even mandatory - service to school and community is one thing, but to be 'shanghaied' into unpaid labor in order to improve your schoolmasters' quarterly figures?
Budd innocently exalts, even as he is 'shanghaied' and set upon a path that leads to the yardarm.
I felt like an idiot, standing there with nothing to say after I'd 'shanghaied' him.
Joe, and Ned it turns out, are minutes from being 'shanghaied' into white slavery when Nancy finally gets around to saving them.
Otherwise, as Hume remarks in his essay u2018Of the Original Contractu2019, it is like telling a man who has been 'shanghaied' aboard a ship that he is free to leap into the sea and perish.
What they don't realize is that the plane is still en route to LA and Walt has merely 'shanghaied' their minds for this astral plane adventure.
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