Purloin synonyms
pər-loin', pûr'loin'
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To steal (usually something small or petty); pilfer
(--- Law) To take property from (a person) illegally by using or threatening to use violence or force; commit robbery upon.
To set aside for a specific use or certain person
To finger is defined as to point at someone with blame.
To steal (a small amount or item).
To present or use (someone else's words or ideas) as one's own.
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To pass (a credit card or other magnetically encoded card) across or through an electronic device that reads it
To commit, or get by, theft
To try to grasp or seize a thing suddenly; grab (at)
To uplift; elate:
To hold up; rob.
(Field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
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To take a sip or sips of alcoholic liquor:
To rip off is to cheat or steal from someone.
To inform on.
make (or walk) off with
crimes (related)
To take (another's property) without permission
(Intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
(Intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
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To win (a person) over.
give (related)
To offer in good faith; pledge:
Find another word for purloin. In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for purloin, like: filch, rob, appropriate, finger, pilfer, pinch, steal, swipe, thieve, snatch and lift.
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