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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
purloin
    v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer,
         cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf,
         swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Purloin \Pur*loin"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purloined; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Purloining.] [OF. purloignier, porloignier, to
   retard, delay; pur, por, pour, for (L. pro) + loin far, far
   off (L. longe). See Prolong, and cf. Eloign.]
   To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to
   take by theft; to filch.
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         Had from his wakeful custody purloined
         The guarded gold.                        --Milton.
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         when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin ?
                                                  --Dryden.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Purloin \Pur*loin"\, v. i.
   To practice theft; to steal. --Titus ii. 10.
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Thesaurus Results for purloin:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, boost, borrow, cabbage, cop, crib, defraud, embezzle, extort, filch, hook, lift, make off with, nip, palm, pilfer, pinch, poach, run away with, rustle, scrounge, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, walk off with
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