To Steal By Force
Transitive verb and Godan verb
うばう
母親は、少女に、悪霊が犬の命を奪ったのだと教えました。
Her mother told her that their puppy's life was stolen by an evil spirit.
Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means rob so the verb vocab version is to rob.
This reading is the same as the one you learned with the kanji.