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Definition of 'steal'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) steal
to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force.

2.  steal
to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.

3.  steal
to take, get, or win insidiously, surreptitiously, subtly, or by chance:
He stole my girlfriend.

4.  steal
to move, bring, convey, or put secretly or quietly; smuggle:
She stole the dog upstairs at bedtime.

5.  steal
Baseball. (of a base runner) to reach (a base) safely by running while the ball is being pitched to the player at bat.

6. (v.i.) steal
to commit or practice theft.

7.  steal
to move, go, or come secretly, quietly, or unobserved:
to steal out of a room.

8.  steal
to pass, happen, etc., imperceptibly, gently, or gradually:
The years steal by.

9.  steal
Baseball. (of a base runner) to advance a base by running to it while the ball is being pitched to the player at bat.

10. (n.) steal
an act of stealing; theft.

11.  steal
the thing stolen.

12.  steal
something acquired at a cost far below its real value; bargain.

13.  steal
Baseball. the act of advancing a base by stealing.

14.  steal
to accept credit for another's work.

15.  steal
to detract from another's achievement by some action that anticipates or overshadows it.

16.  steal
to usurp the credit for something.

17.  steal
to be more outstanding than anyone or anything else.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME stelen, OE stelan, c. OFris, ON

Definition of 'steal'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) bargain, buy, steal
an advantageous purchase
"she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price"

2. (verb) steal
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)

3. (verb) steal
take without the owner's consent
"Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

4. (verb) steal, slip
move stealthily
"The ship slipped away in the darkness"

5. (verb) steal
steal a base

Definition of 'steal'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) steal
to take sth that belongs to another person
He stole $300 from the office.; I would only steal if I were desperate.

2. steal
to move quietly
He stole past the bedroom.

Definition of 'steal'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) steal
a handle; a stale, or stele

2. (verb) steal
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

3. (verb) steal
to withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate

4. (verb) steal
to gain by insinuating arts or covert means

5. (verb) steal
to get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away

6. (verb) steal
to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look

7. (verb) steal
to practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft

8. (verb) steal
to withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively

Translation of 'steal'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to take (another person's property), especially secretly, without permission or legal right Thieves broke into the house and stole money and jewellery; He was expelled from the school because he had been stealing (money).
Afrikaans: steel	Arabic: يَسْرُق	Bulgarian: крада
Brazilian: roubar	Czech: (u)krást	German: stehlen
Danish: stjæle	Greek: κλέβω	Estonian: varastama
Farsi: دزديدن	Finnish: varastaa	French: voler
Hebrew: לִגנוֹב	Hindi: चोरी करना	Croatian: krasti, ukrasti
Hungarian: (el)lop	Indonesian: mencuri	Icelandic: stela
Italian: rubare	Japanese: 盗む	Korean: 훔치다
Lithuanian: vogti	Latvian: zagt	Malay: curi
Dutch: stelen	Norwegian: stjele, rane til seg	Polish: kraść
Portuguese: roubar	Romanian: a fura	Russian: красть
Slovak: (u)kradnúť	Slovenian: krasti	Serbian: ukrasti
Swedish: stjäla	Thai: ขโมย	Turkish: çalmak
Taiwanese: 偷	Ukrainian: красти	Urdu: بلا اجازت کسی کی کوءی چیز
Vietnamese: ăn cắp, ăn trộm	Chinese: 偷
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