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Meanings of steal in English
The act of taking illegitimatly possession of something that belongs to others.
Synonyms
Examples for "theft"
Examples for "theft"
1
The good news: Car theft dropped 22 percent last year, CCC reported.
2
The law requires hacked organizations to promptly warn potential identity theft victims.
3
Unfortunately, credit card fraud and identity theft are becoming increasingly big problems.
4
The idea comes from the goddess; the theft is all my own.
5
The Seven-Ten list theft was engineered to lead us to this truth.
1
Garaventa pleaded guilty in July to grand larceny and falsifying business records.
2
After all, that is nothing; petty larceny, six months at the most.
3
In other words, the theft of five thousand dollars is grand larceny.
4
In July, Margulies was found guilty of grand larceny and other charges.
5
This sharecropping in the South is grand larceny on a grand scale.
1
This cannot be achieved while you remain imprisoned on charges of thievery.
2
Later, over cigarettes and coffee, Perry returned to the subject of thievery.
3
There'd been a great to do when the staff discovered the thievery.
4
Everywhere people spoke of rampant thievery, highway robbery; endless fires burned everywhere.
5
And there was more than a little thievery and brawling and rioting.
1
He saw the destroyer of their lives, a devil who had worked subtly for his despoilment.
2
Delacroix's picture portrays a scene in this despoilment.
3
Gunesekera's fiction often touches on loss, flight, memory, the eroding passage of time and the despoilment of ostensible paradises.
4
Then, on April 12, 1204, the invaders secured it again, and subjected it to a despoilment without parallel.
5
His victim dragged herself back to her mother's door, and, half dead with grief and fright, related the awful story of her despoilment.
Usage of steal in English
1
Greed often causes people to steal and pilfer for no good reason.
2
With the current drought, there was no water to steal this year.
3
Its stated aim: to steal cultivation and sale away from organised crime.
4
Switzerland's finest will settle for bettering CSKA's result to steal second spot.
5
They said Beasley wanted to rob his victims and steal their identities.
6
Family members said the bandits did not steal anything from the deceased.
7
Zeus's primary aim is to steal financial information, such as bank credentials.
8
Here's a free trade zone where you can steal whatever you want?
9
The strikers even went as far as to steal the buses' keys.
10
We'll have to hope there's still an Imperial ship left to steal.
11
Could she have been here four months ago, helping Varis steal books?
12
Many decide to steal vehicles once they have committed their initial crime.
13
BTW: Only scumbags steal software: if you use it, you should pay.
14
Why would anyone want to steal the fingerprints of Federal government employees?
15
Unfortunately, he seizes my arm as I try to steal past them.
16
It's not that Project Mayhem needed to steal a handful of change.
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Steal across language varieties
South Africa
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Australia
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United Kingdom
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