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SKYJACK
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject an aircraft to air piracy
Example:
the plane was skyjacked to Uzbekistan
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "skyjack" is one way to...):
commandeer; highjack; hijack; pirate (take arbitrarily or by force)
Domain category:
crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
