steal
verb
[ stiːl ]
• take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
• "thieves stole her bicycle"
Similar:
purloin,
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,
theft,
thieving,
thievery,
robbery,
larceny,
burglary,
shoplifting,
pilfering,
pilferage,
looting,
appropriation,
misappropriation,
embezzlement,
peculation,
defalcation,
• move somewhere quietly or surreptitiously.
• "he stole down to the kitchen"
Similar:
creep,
sneak,
slink,
slip,
slither,
slide,
glide,
sidle,
slope,
edge,
move furtively,
tiptoe,
pussyfoot,
pad,
prowl,
abscond,
decamp,
make off,
run off,
run away,
flee,
bolt,
take off,
take flight,
disappear,
vanish,
slip away,
sneak away,
beat a hasty retreat,
escape,
make a run for it,
make one's getaway,
leave,
depart,
make oneself scarce,
split,
scram,
skedaddle,
vamoose,
skip,
cut and run,
make tracks,
push off,
shove off,
clear off,
hightail it,
hotfoot it,
show a clean pair of heels,
do a bunk,
do a runner,
do a moonlight flit,
do a disappearing act,
head for the hills,
fly the coop,
take French leave,
go AWOL,
scarper,
take a powder,
go on the lam,
light out,
bug out,
peel out,
cut out,
hook it,
steal
noun
• a bargain.
• "at £59.95 it's an absolute steal"
• an act of stealing something.
• "New York's biggest art steal"
Similar:
theft,
robbery,
raid,
ram raid,
burglary,
larceny,
thievery,
break-in,
hold-up,
embezzlement,
misappropriation,
swindle,
fraud,
dacoity,
snatch,
smash-and-grab (raid),
stick-up,
mugging,
job,
pinch,
blag,
heist,
peculation,
defalcation,
Origin:
Old English stelan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stelen and German stehlen .
