SKYJACK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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