purloin
verb
[ pəːˈlɔɪn ]
• steal (something).
• "he must have managed to purloin a copy of the key"
Similar:
steal,
thieve,
take,
take for oneself,
help oneself to,
loot,
pilfer,
abscond with,
run off with,
appropriate,
abstract,
carry off,
shoplift,
embezzle,
misappropriate,
walk off/away with,
run away/off with,
rob,
swipe,
nab,
rip off,
lift,
liberate,
filch,
snaffle,
snitch,
souvenir,
nick,
pinch,
half-inch,
whip,
knock off,
nobble,
bone,
scrump,
blag,
heist,
glom,
snavel,
clifty,
tief,
crib,
hook,
peculate,
defalcate,
walk,
go walkies,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘put at a distance’): from Anglo-Norman French purloigner ‘put away’, from pur- ‘forth’ + loign ‘far’.
