(verb) : ab-rĭpĭo, pui, eptum, 3, rapio
* To take away by violence, to drag away, to tear off or away (stronger than its synn. abduco, abigo, abstraho).
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* In gen.: abripite hunc intro actutum inter manus,hurry him away,Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 38: puella ex Atticā hinc abrepta,stolen,Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 30; cf.: abreptam ex eo loco virginem secum asportāsse,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 107: de convivio in vincla atque in tenebras,id. ib. 2, 4, 10, § 24: ab complexu alicujus,Liv. 3, 57, 3: milites vi fluminis abrepti,Caes. B. C. 1, 64; cf. Mel. 3, 5, 8; Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 170; Verg. A. 1, 108: aliquem ad quaestionem,Cic. Clu. 33, 89; cf.: aliquem ad humanum exitum,id. Rep. 1, 16 fin.; with acc. only: Cererem,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 50, § 111: cives,Nep. Milt. 4, 2: aliquid,id. Dat. 4, 2: abripere se, to run, scamper away: ita abripuit repente sese subito,Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 21; so id. Curc. 5, 1, 8.
* Trop., to carry off, remove, detach: repente te quasi quidam aestus ingenii tui procul a terrā abripuit atque in altum ... abstraxit,Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 145: voluntate omnes tecum fuerunt; tempestate abreptus est unus,id. Lig. 12, 34 (the figure taken from those driven away in a storm at sea); so, abreptus amore caedum,Sil. 5, 229; cf. id. 6, 332: (filium) etiam si natura a parentis similitudine abriperet,i.e. made unlike him,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12.

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