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steal
English
Etymology
From Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelan? (compare West Frisian stelle, Low German stehlen, Dutch stelen, German stehlen, Danish stjæle, Swedish stjäla,Norwegian stjele); see below for more.
Pronunciation
- enPR: st?l, IPA(key): /sti?l/
- Rhymes: -i?l
- Homophones: steel, stele
Verb
steal (third-person singular simple present steals, present participle stealing, simple past stole, past participle stolen or (nonstandard, colloquial) stole)
- (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
- "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
- (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind too often from its steady pursuit of any subject.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place
- Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, […] and do not think to steal it.
- (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
- (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Ch.1:
- "Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Ch.1:
- (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
- (sports, transitive) To dispossess
- (informal, transitive) To borrow for a short moment.
Synonyms
- (to illegally take possession of): See Thesaurus:steal
- (to secretly move): sneak
Antonyms
- (acquire licitly) receive, purchase, buy, earn
- (provide freely) donate, bestow, grant
Troponyms
- shoplift
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- burglarize
- burgle
- confiscate
- pickpocket
- pilfer
- steal away
Noun
steal (plural steals)
- The act of stealing.
- A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
- At this price, this car is a steal.
- (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- (baseball) A stolen base.
- (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
Synonyms
- (merchandise available at a very attractive price): (great / real / very good) bargain
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla
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robbing
English
Verb
robbing
- present participle of rob
Noun
robbing (countable and uncountable, plural robbings)
- robbery
- 1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World (page 141)
- Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.
- 1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World (page 141)
Middle English
Noun
robbing
- Alternative form of robbyng
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