Steal
[stiːl] or [stil]
Definition
(noun.) 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).
(verb.) steal a base.
(verb.) move stealthily; 'The ship slipped away in the darkness'.
(verb.) take without the owner's consent; 'Someone stole my wallet on the train'; 'This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation'.
Checker: Wilbur--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A handle; a stale, or stele.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
(v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
(v. t.) To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
(v. t.) To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
(v. i.) To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
(v. i.) To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Purloin, pilfer, filch, CABBAGE, poach, peculate, embezzle, ROB, make off with, come unlawfully by.[2]. Allure, win, gain, draw over.
v. n. [1]. Pilfer, purloin, thieve, practise theft.[2]. Pass stealthily, go unperceived.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Filch, pilfer, purloin, swindle, take_by_theft, peculate, embezzle, smuggle
ANT:Rob, plunder, ravage, maraud, Back, pillage
Typist: Tabitha
Definition
n. (Spens.) a handle.
v.t. to take by theft or feloniously: to take away without notice: to gain or win by address insidiously or by gradual means: to snatch: in golf to hole a long putt by a stealthy stroke—the opposite of Gobble.—v.i. to practise theft: to take feloniously: to pass secretly: to slip in or out unperceived:—pa.t. stōle; pa.p. stōlen.—ns. Steal′er; Steal′ing the act of taking another's property without his knowledge or consent: stolen property.—adv. Steal′ingly.—Steal a march on to gain an advantage unperceived.
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Examples
- The old traditions of the place steal upon his memory and haunt his reveries, and then his fancy clothes all sights and sounds with the supernatural. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To steal, yes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Another happy evening, quite as unreal as all the rest of it, and I steal into the usual room before going away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A vague feeling of uneasiness began to steal over me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Steal after me and touch me? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the afternoon comes Thaka, possibly, to complain that old Mungo has stolen his new wife. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Any inward debate Lydgate had as to the consequences of this engagement which had stolen upon him, turned on the paucity of time rather than of money. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Martha was frightened to death and begged my pardon; hoped nothing had been stolen. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- That Tuesday afternoon the transient doze--more like lethargy than sleep--which sometimes abridged the long days, had stolen over her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He then went to Newark and sat up all night with the money for fear it might be stolen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Where are the jewels which you have stolen? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Quietly she stole toward the entrance and glanced within. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She spoke not a word, but stole to bed after her father had left her, like a child ashamed of its fault. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She stole a sudden glance at the face close to hers, and then she gave a little frightened gasp. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- With our black silk face-coverings, which turned us into two of the most truculent figures in London, we stole up to the silent, gloomy house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Thither he stole away whenever he could leave the shop, and not even Anna went with him, nor even to her did he tell what he was doing. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it had been pressed, and softly caressed the heedless foot. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You naughty, wicked child,--you've been stealing this! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Let _him_ talk about stealing! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If robbery for the purpose of gain was at the bottom of the conspiracy, the Colonel's instructions absolutely made the Diamond better worth stealing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A kind of pleasant stupor was stealing over me as I sat by the genial fire. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The purser was accused of stealing an overcoat from stateroom No. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When a man steals cattle, they cut off his right hand and left leg and nail them up in the marketplace as a warning to everybody. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A strange, secret ecstasy steals through my veins at moments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- From clime to clime, from shore to shore, Shall thrill the magic thread; The new Prometheus steals once more The fire that wakes the dead. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I can preserve myself from priests, and from churches; but love steals in unawares! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There's a deadness steals over me at times, that the kind of life favours and I don't like. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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