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Phrase(s): abstract something from someone or something
to steal something from someone or something. (Formal.) • The officer was found guilty of abstracting a rather large amount of money from the company., Phrase(s): abstract something from something
to take the important information from a longer document; to extract the essentials or the gist from a piece of complicated writing. • Can you abstract a shorter article from this material?
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs