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steal
verb as in take something without permission
Strongest matches
abduct, divert, embezzle, keep, kidnap, loot, pilfer, plunder, ransack, remove, strip, swipe, take
Strong matches
appropriate, blackmail, burglarize, cheat, cozen, defraud, despoil, heist, housebreak, lift, misappropriate, peculate, pillage, pinch, pirate, plagiarize, poach, purloin, rifle, sack, shoplift, snitch, swindle, thieve, withdraw
Weak matches
carry off, hold for ransom, hold up, make off with, rip off, run off with, spirit away, stick up, take possession of, walk off with
Example Sentences
In “Steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”
About how much did the group allegedly steal from Mosul banks?
When they steal things, they want to get all the bonus points.
Watch your back Liam Neeson, here comes Kevin Costner to steal your older-leading-man thunder!
Murderers tweet in Mexico; a history of Kansas City and did Picasso try to steal the Mona Lisa?
That you did not steal from her house by a secret passage, on the night of the destruction of the opera-house?
"I told them there was not an Indian in this village would steal cattle," said Ramona, indignantly.
The bank did not employ him to steal, but to perform the ordinary banking duties.
She was thinking she could steal out to the evening service; it might not be so much noticed then, her being alone.
Thus one cannot steal from the other; but either is criminally liable for an assault committed on the other.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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