English > steal: 5 senses > verb 1, possession| Meaning | Take without the owner's consent. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
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| Model | They steal the money |
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| Synonyms | rip off, rip |
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| Narrower | burglarize, burglarise, burgle, heist | commit a burglary |
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| embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate | Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom | Take by theft |
| hustle, pluck, roll | sell something to or obtain something from by energetic / energetic and especially underhanded activity |
| loot, plunder | Take illegally |
| pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift | Make off with belongings of others |
| pirate | Copy illegally |
| plagiarize, plagiarise, lift | Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech |
| pocket, bag | Take unlawfully |
| rob | take something away by force or without the consent of the owner |
| rustle, lift | Take illegally |
| shoplift | steal in a store |
| walk off | Take without permission |
| Broader | take | Take by force |
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| Spanish | afanar, hurtar, mangar, quitar, rapiñar, robar, sustraer |
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| Catalan | afanar, furtar, prendre, rampinyar, robar |
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| Nouns | stealer | a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it |
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| stealing | the act of taking something from someone unlawfully |
