略取・掠取|りゃくしゅryakushu[1]atamadaka (head-high)
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Which spelling to use
略取略取 is the most common and standard written form, and is the form learners should use by default.
掠取掠取 is a kanji-only variant that is rarely used; learners will seldom encounter it and generally should choose 略取 instead.
Definitions
- noun, suru verb, transitive verbcapture; looting; plundering
- noun, suru verb, transitive verb, lawabduction (using violence or threats); kidnapping
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 略取する（りゃくしゅする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 略取します（りゃくしゅします） |
| Negative (nai) | 略取しない（りゃくしゅしない） |
| polite (masen) | 略取しません（りゃくしゅしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 略取せず・略取せぬ（りゃくしゅせず・りゃくしゅせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 略取した（りゃくしゅした） |
| polite (mashita) | 略取しました（りゃくしゅしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 略取しなかった（りゃくしゅしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 略取しませんでした（りゃくしゅしませんでした） |
| Te form | 略取して（りゃくしゅして） |
| Potential | 略取できる（りゃくしゅできる） |
| Passive | 略取される（りゃくしゅされる） |
| Causative | 略取させる（りゃくしゅさせる） |
| Causative passive | 略取させられる（りゃくしゅさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 略取すれば（りゃくしゅすれば） |
| tara | 略取したら（りゃくしゅしたら） |
| Volitional | 略取しよう（りゃくしゅしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 略取しましょう（りゃくしゅしましょう） |
| Imperative | 略取しろ（りゃくしゅしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym奪い取るうばいとるNeutralEveryday word for seizing things — property, rights, status — by force; unlike 「略取」 it does not carry the legal sense of abducting a person.
- Synonym略奪りゃくだつWrittenWritten term for looting by group violence; it is about seizing goods and does not cover abducting people.
- SynonymぶんどるCasualColloquial and rough: to grab something by force. More casual than 「略取」, and used for things rather than the legal abduction sense.
- Synonym強奪ごうだつWrittenWritten term for taking by force; also covers hijacking. It centres on seizing property, not on abducting people as 「略取」 does.
- Synonym収奪しゅうだつWrittenWritten word for forcible taking, also 'exploitation'; often used for systematic, institutional plunder rather than a single crime.
- Synonym奪ううばうNeutralThe broadest, most common everyday word: to take by force; it can also mean captivating attention. Much wider than 「略取」.
- Synonym誘拐ゆうかいWrittenLegal term for abduction by deception or enticement; cases involving violence or threats are called 「略取」 instead.
- Synonym拉致らちWrittenNews staple for kidnapping and carrying people off, as in 「拉致問題」; very close in sense to 「略取」.
- Synonym掠め奪うかすめうばうNeutralRare word for seizing something by force or violence; it concerns taking things and does not involve kidnapping.
- Related連れ去るつれさるNeutralEveryday word, frequent in the news, for taking someone away; it does not necessarily stress violence or threats.
- RelatedかどわかすNeutralLiterary, old-fashioned word for luring or carrying a person off by deception or force; it stresses the trickery more than 「略取」 does.
- RelatedかっさらうCasualColloquial and rough: to snatch something up in a flash. The emphasis is on the speed of the grab, not on abduction.
- RelatedさらうNeutralCommon in speech: to snatch a person or thing away, also 'monopolize'. More colloquial than 「略取」 and not a legal term.
- RelatedひっさらうCasualColloquial: to haul a person away by force. It focuses on abducting people but sounds far more casual than 「略取」.
- RelatedかすめるNeutralTo steal on the sly, seizing a moment of inattention; also 'graze'. Sneaky rather than violent — unlike 「略取」.
- Antonym返還へんかんWrittenWritten word for returning something to its owner; it is the opposite only of the taking-property side of 「略取」, not of abducting people.
Use 「略取」 for taking people or things by violence or threats; in law it mainly means abducting a person and appears in 「略取誘拐」. For abduction by deception or enticement choose 「誘拐」; for looting goods choose 「略奪」; in everyday speech 「奪う」 is the default.
Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only
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