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entwenden (v.t)  to appropriate (steal), lift, purloin, swipe, take (steal), pinch

Gesucht wird nach einem schwarzen Laptop, das aus einem Auto in Birmingham entwendet wurde.
They're looking for a black laptop that was lifted from a car in Birmingham [England].
(The laptop in question, containing the personal data of 600,000 people, disappeared from the car of a British naval officer who left the computer in his auto overnight.)

Related: berauben to steal, bestehlen to steal, klauen to lift, pinch, steal

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