Stealing synonyms
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Part of speech:
The illegal taking of property under one’s care, particularly property to which one has a public trust or fiduciary duty.
To take booty; rob.
shoplifting
(Uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb shoplift.
To capture physically; seize:
crime (related)
(Uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
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To take (something) by theft or commit theft.
Swindle is to use deception, lies or fraudulent is defined as to trick someone or to obtain something that is not yours.
Snitch is slang and is defined as to steal or tattle.
To take something stealthily without permission.
To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
To skulk is to try to keep out of sight, moving around in the shadows or otherwise trying not to be noticed.
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(Informal) To work or proceed with, or move, bring, or get by, energetic or vigorous action
(--- Now Rare) To take by stealing or plundering
To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
(Slang) To take and keep (especially money) that which is not one's own.
To take (ideas, writings, etc.) from (another) and pass them off as one's own
To take (something) by piracy
(Slang) To take into custody; arrest.
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To take as booty or loot
To steal (a small amount or item).
To appropriate dishonestly for one's own use; embezzle.
To use or apply wrongly.
To take or carry off as plunder
To take an imprint of (a fingerprint) from a surface
The definition of liberate is to free or emancipate someone or something, or to steal something.
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To seize and hold or carry off (a person) against that person's will, by force or fraud, often for ransom
To insinuate is defined as to suggest or imply something but not come right out and say it.
To take hold of with a hook
To take over control of a vehicle or airplane by use of the threat of force.
To hold up; rob.
To seize or snatch suddenly; take roughly and quickly
Filch is defined as to steal a small thing.
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To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
To wrongfully take something of value from another by the threat of force or other coercive measure.
To steal (money, etc. entrusted to one's care); take by fraud for one's own use
Divert is defined as to turn aside or distract from one direction to another.
To take something from by fraud; swindle:
To crib is to copy something without authorization or without giving credit to the original author.
To creep is defined as to move slowly and quietly while close to the ground.
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To seize, capture, take, win, steal, etc.
(Sports) To position oneself closer to a certain area than is normal or expected:
To commit burglary in (a building or other premises).
To bribe someone is to offer something of value in exchange for the person doing what you want.
To get or try to get blackmail from
To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
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To take improperly, as without permission
To take dishonestly; steal
(Intransitive, reflexive, archaic) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
To take (a person) away unlawfully and by force or fraud; kidnap
To give a nip or nips
To take off:
To adopt or take over (something) as one's own
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(Pejorative, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone of something inappropriately.
To take or appropriate, esp. without asking
To fleece is defined as to trick someone, or to shave the wool off of a animal.
To copy or imitate something without the right to do so and with the intent to deceive or defraud by representing the copy or imitation to be the original or to be genuine if no original ever existed (such as passing off a painting as a particular work by Claude Monet when, in fact, Monet never painted such a piece of art).
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To take off all clothing; undress
The definition of cozen is to cheat, or make someone believe something that isn't true.
To put into a sack or sacks
To withdraw is defined as to remove, turn away or take back.
To take care of, or have and take care or charge of
To put into a bag.
To produce a vivid impression of (something).
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To move in a sinuous or gliding manner:
(Intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
To move stealthily or unobtrusively
To move stealthily or cautiously.
(Intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
To move furtively
(Intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
receiving (antonym)
To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
giving (antonym)
To perform for an audience:
seizing (related)
To grasp suddenly and forcibly; take or grab:
moving (related)
To stir the emotions:
theft (related)
The act or an instance of stealing; larceny
The act of moving, proceeding, or acting in a covert way.
Find another word for stealing. In this page you can discover 85 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for stealing, like: piracy, embezzlement, plundering, shoplifting, larceny, taking, crime, thieving, swiping, swindling and snitching.