Another word for steal
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Verb
To take (another's property) without permission
- To act as an informer:
- To steal (something, usually something of little value); pilfer:
- An informer.
- A product or service that is overpriced or of poor quality.
- Something, such as a film or story, that is clearly imitative of or based on something else.
- A theft.
- To squeeze (something) between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges.
- To cause pain or discomfort to (a part of the body) by pressing or being too tight:
- To nip, wither, or shrivel:
- To seize and pinch or bite:
- To remove or sever by pinching or snipping:
- To bite or sting with the cold; chill.
- A curved or sharply bent device, usually of metal, used to catch, drag, suspend, or fasten something else.
- A fishhook.
- A curved or barbed plant or animal part.
- To steal:
- To hold up; rob.
- A robbery; a burglary.
- A police officer.
- One that regulates certain behaviors or actions:
- A sweeping blow or stroke.
- A critical remark.
- A lever, especially one that raises the bucket in a well.
- To direct or carry from a lower to a higher position; raise:
- To transport by air:
- To revoke by taking back; rescind:
- To take (something) by theft or commit theft.
- To grasp or seize hastily, eagerly, or suddenly:
- To steal, especially quickly or with a sudden movement.
- To kidnap (someone).
- To steal, especially in a stealthy way.
- To steal (a small amount or item).
- To steal or filch.
- To take (something, especially something of little value) in a furtive manner; snitch.
Idioms:To move silently and furtively
- A sneaker or rubber overshoe.
- An investigator, especially a detective.
- To work as a detective.
- To go or move in a quiet, stealthy way.
- To behave in a cowardly or servile manner.
- To move, give, take, or put in a quiet, stealthy manner:
- Any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous squamate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (or Ophidia), having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and flexible jaws.
- A treacherous person.
- A long, highly flexible metal wire or coil used for cleaning drains.
- To move smoothly, easily, and quietly:
- To move stealthily; steal:
- To escape, as from a grasp, fastening, or restraint:
- To move in a quiet furtive manner; sneak:
- To give birth to prematurely:
- Born prematurely.
- To move over a surface while maintaining smooth continuous contact.
- To participate in a sport that involves such movement:
- To lose a secure footing or positioning; slip:
- To lie in hiding, as out of cowardice or bad conscience; lurk.
- To move about stealthily.
- To evade work or obligation; shirk.
- To move stealthily or cautiously.
- To act or proceed cautiously or timidly to avoid committing oneself.
- To roam through stealthily, as in search of prey or plunder:
- To rove furtively or with predatory intent:
- The act or an instance of prowling.
- Any of numerous small rodents of the families Muridae and Cricetidae, such as the house mouse, characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, and a long naked or almost hairless tail.
- Any of various similar or related animals, such as the jumping mouse, the vole, or the jerboa.
- A cowardly or timid person.
- To wait out of view:
- To move furtively; sneak:
- To exist unobserved or unsuspected:
- To move in a smooth, effortless manner:
- To move silently and furtively:
- To occur or pass imperceptibly:
- To move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees.
- To move stealthily or cautiously.
- To move or proceed very slowly:
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Noun
The crime of taking someone else's property without consent
- A product or service that is overpriced or of poor quality.
- Something, such as a film or story, that is clearly imitative of or based on something else.
- A theft.
- The act or practice of thieving.
- The unlawful taking of the property of another; larceny:
- An instance of such taking:
- Something stolen.
- the act or practice of pilfering
- something pilfered
- The unlawful taking and removing of another's personal property with the intent of permanently depriving the owner; theft.
See also:Something offered or bought at a low price
- To give out in shares or portions; apportion:
- To distribute (playing cards) among players.
- To give (a specific card) to a player while so distributing.
- To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent; purchase.
- To be capable of purchasing:
- To acquire by sacrifice, exchange, or trade:
- An agreement between parties fixing obligations that each promises to carry out.
- An agreement establishing the terms of a sale or exchange of goods or services:
- Property acquired or services rendered as a result of such an agreement.
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Another word for steal
Verb
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- To obtain or receive (something) on loan with the promise or understanding of returning it or its equivalent.
- To adopt or use as one's own:
- In subtraction, to take a unit from the next larger denomination in the minuend so as to make a number larger than the number to be subtracted.
- to steal something and run
- To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle.
- A fraud or swindle.
- One who defrauds; a swindler.
- To obtain or try to obtain by begging; cadge.
- To steal; filch.
- To get or try to get something free of charge; sponge:
- To squeeze (something) between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges.
- To cause pain or discomfort to (a part of the body) by pressing or being too tight:
- To nip, wither, or shrivel:
- A sweeping blow or stroke.
- A critical remark.
- A lever, especially one that raises the bucket in a well.
- A police officer.
- One that regulates certain behaviors or actions:
- To append or attach, especially to a larger or more significant thing.
- To incorporate (territory) into an existing political unit such as a country, state, county, or city.
- To add or attach, as an attribute, condition, or consequence.
- To direct or carry from a lower to a higher position; raise:
- To transport by air:
- To revoke by taking back; rescind:
- To grasp or seize hastily, eagerly, or suddenly:
- To steal, especially quickly or with a sudden movement.
- To kidnap (someone).
- To set free, as from oppression, confinement, or foreign control.
- To release (a gas, for example) from combination.
- To obtain by illegal or stealthy action:
- A product or service that is overpriced or of poor quality.
- Something, such as a film or story, that is clearly imitative of or based on something else.
- A theft.
- To move with soft fluttering or crackling sounds:
- To move or act energetically or while making such sounds:
- To steal livestock, especially cattle.
- To squeeze (something) between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges.
- To cause pain or discomfort to (a part of the body) by pressing or being too tight:
- To nip, wither, or shrivel:
- To hijack (an aircraft).
- To burglarize.
- A bed with high sides for a young child or baby.
- A small building, usually with slatted sides, for storing corn.
- A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.
- To search through (something) thoroughly and often roughly:
- To go through (a place) stealing valuables and causing disarray; pillage:
- To deprive of something valuable, especially by force; rob:
- To ruin, especially by destroying or removing what is valuable:
- To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder.
- To take as spoils.
- To take spoils by force.
- To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; pillage:
- To seize wrongfully or by force; steal:
- To take booty; rob.
- The coat of wool of a sheep or similar animal.
- The yield of wool shorn from a sheep at one time.
- A soft woolly covering or mass.
- Extortion of money or something else of value from a person by the threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information.
- Something of value, especially money, extorted in this manner:
- Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the Scottish border for protection from pillage.
- To commit burglary in (a building or other premises).
- To commit burglary against (someone):
- To commit burglary.
- To train (a dog) to urinate and defecate outdoors and not indoors.
- To subdue; tame:
- The breaking and entering or burglary of a dwelling.
- To appropriate wrongly:
- To appropriate dishonestly for one's own use; embezzle.
- To reproduce or otherwise use (the words, ideas, or other work of another) as one's own or without attribution.
- To plagiarize the words, ideas, or work of (another person).
- To present another's words or ideas as one's own or without attribution.
- To cheat or defraud of money or property.
- To obtain by fraudulent means:
- To practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property.
- To make an imitation or copy of (something), usually with the intent to defraud:
- To make a pretense of; feign:
- To carry on a deception; dissemble.
- To embezzle (funds) or engage in embezzlement.
- To cook in a boiling or simmering liquid:
- To remove clothing or covering from:
- To remove or take off (clothing or covering):
- To remove an exterior coating, as of paint or varnish, from:
- To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive.
- To persuade or induce to do something by cajoling or wheedling.
- To obtain by deceit or persuasion.
- To deceive by trickery; swindle:
- To deprive by trickery; defraud:
- To mislead; fool:
- A bag, especially one made of strong material for holding grain or objects in bulk.
- The amount that a sack can hold:
- A short loose-fitting garment for women and children.
- A firearm with a rifled bore, designed to be fired from the shoulder.
- An artillery piece or naval gun with such spiral grooves.
- Troops armed with rifles.
- To remove without anyone's noticing.
- To seize control of (a vehicle such as an airplane or bus) by use of force, especially as a way of reaching an alternate destination or as an act of terrorism.
- To kidnap (a person in a vehicle):
- To stop and rob (a vehicle in transit).
- To abduct or confine (a person) forcibly, by threat of force, or by deceit, without the authority of law.
- To kidnap (a man) for compulsory service aboard a ship, especially after drugging him.
- To induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force:
- To carry off by force; kidnap.
- To draw away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part or limb.
- To affect strongly, often favorably:
- To produce or attempt to produce a vivid impression or image of:
- To mark or stamp with pressure:
- To move from a place or position occupied:
- To transfer or convey from one place to another:
- To take off:
- To direct or carry from a lower to a higher position; raise:
- To transport by air:
- To revoke by taking back; rescind:
- To turn aside from a course or direction:
- To distract:
- To entertain by distracting the attention from worrisome thoughts or cares; amuse.
- To take back or away; remove:
- To cause to leave or return:
- To remove (money) from an account.
- Suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place; fitting.
- To set apart for a specific use:
- To take possession of or make use of exclusively for oneself, often without permission:
- To transport away.
- (idiomatic) To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity.
- To cause death.
- To retain possession of:
- To have as a supply:
- To provide (a family, for example) with maintenance and support:
- To take something from by fraud; swindle:
- To take (money one has been entrusted with) for personal use.
- To steal, especially in a stealthy way.
- To take property from (a person) illegally by using or threatening to use violence or force; commit robbery upon.
- To steal something from (a place, vehicle, or institution, for example):
- To steal (money or valuables):
- Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils.
- Stolen goods or money.
- Things of value, such as gifts, received.
- To take (something) by theft or commit theft.
- A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.
- A handbag; a purse.
- A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.
- To take (something, especially something of little value) in a furtive manner; snitch.
- To grasp or grip:
- To capture physically; seize:
- To seize with authority or legal right:
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