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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
steal
n 1: an advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the
auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" [syn:
bargain, buy, steal]
2: a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances
safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a
hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
v 1: take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet
on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my
dissertation"
2: move stealthily; "The ship slipped away in the darkness"
[syn: steal, slip]
3: steal a base
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Stale \Stale\ (st[=a]l), n. [OE. stale, stele, AS. stael, stel;
akin to LG. & D. steel, G. stiel; cf. L. stilus stake, stalk,
stem, Gr. steleo`n a handle, and E. stall, stalk, n.]
The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
[Written also steal, stele, etc.]
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But seeing the arrow's stale without, and that the head
did go
No further than it might be seen. --Chapman.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Steal \Steal\ (st[=e]l), v. i.
1. To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or
theft.
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Thou shalt not steal. --Ex. xx. 15.
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2. To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away,
unperceived; to go or come furtively. --Chaucer.
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Fixed of mind to avoid further entreaty, and to fly
all company, one night she stole away. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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From whom you now must steal, and take no leave.
--Shak.
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A soft and solemn breathing sound
Rose like a steam of rich, distilled perfumes,
And stole upon the air. --Milton.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Steal \Steal\ (st[=e]l), n. [See Stale a handle.]
A handle; a stale, or stele. [Archaic or Prov. Eng.]
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And in his hand a huge poleax did bear.
Whose steale was iron-studded but not long. --Spenser.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Steal \Steal\ (st[=e]l), v. t. [imp. Stole (st[=o]l); p. p.
Stolen (st[=o]"l'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Stealing.] [OE.
stelen, AS. stelan; akin to OFries. stela, D. stelen, OHG.
stelan, G. stehlen, Icel. stela, SW. stj[aum]la, Dan.
stiaele, Goth. stilan.]
1. To take, and carry away, feloniously; to take without
right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to
steal the personal goods of another.
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Maugre thy heed, thou must for indigence
Or steal, or beg, or borrow, thy dispense.
--Chaucer.
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The man who stole a goose and gave away the giblets
in alms. --G. Eliot.
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2. To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to
creep furtively, or to insinuate.
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They could insinuate and steal themselves under the
same by their humble carriage and submission.
--Spenser.
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He will steal himself into a man's favor. --Shak.
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3. To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
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So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
--2 Sam. xv.
6.
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4. To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible
degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and
imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
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Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the
mind from its steady pursuit of any subject. --I.
Watts.
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5. To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try
to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
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Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course,
profess it plainly, . . . and do not think to steal
it. --Bacon.
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To steal a march, to march in a covert way; to gain an
advantage unobserved; -- formerly followed by of, but now
by on or upon, and sometimes by over; as, to steal a march
upon one's political rivals.
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She yesterday wanted to steal a march of poor Liddy.
--Smollett.
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Fifty thousand men can not easily steal a march over
the sea. --Walpole.
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Syn: To filch; pilfer; purloin; thieve.
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Thesaurus Results for steal:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
abstract, acquire, adopt, advantageous purchase, and, annex, appropriate, assume, bag, bargain, boost, borrow, burglarize, burglary, buy, cabbage, caper, catch up, claim, clap hands on, clasp, claw, clench, clinch, clout, clutch, collar, coon, cop, copy, couch, crawl, creep, crib, crook, defraud, derive from, drain off, draw off, embezzle, embrace, extort, filch, fleece, frisk, get, get away with, get hold of, glide, glom on to, go on tiptoe, good buy, good pennyworth, grab, grab hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grovel, gumshoe, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hug, imitate, inch, inch along, infringe, job, larceny, lay hands on, lay hold of, lay wait, liberate, lie in wait, lift, loot, lurk, make off with, make use of, misappropriate, mock, mooch, mouse, nab, nail, nick, nightwalk, nip, nip up, pad, palm, partake, peculate, pennyworth, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plagiarize, plunder, poach, pocket, possess, prig, prowl, purloin, purloining, pussyfoot, receive, rifle, rip-off, rob, robbery, run away with, rustle, scrabble, scramble, scrounge, seize, shadow, shanghai, shirk, shoplift, sidle, simulate, skulk, slide, slink, slip, snake, snap up, snare, snatch, sneak, snitch, stalk, steal along, stealage, stealing, swindle, swipe, take, take away, take by assault, take by storm, take hold of, take on, take over, take possession, theft, thieve, thievery, thieving, tippytoe, tiptoe, touch, usurp, vulture, walk off with, whip up, worm, worm along |
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Common Misspellings > |
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