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Meanings of stealer in English

Portuguese
ladra
Catalan
robador
Spanish
ladrón
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A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.

        ladra
        Usage of stealer in English
        1
        They might as well say I was a horse-stealer or a housebreaker.
        The Virginians
        2
        One of the cards bore these words: 'Much-respected Deputy and collar-sewer-orstealer.'
        The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
        3
        A sheep-stealer might easily have fallen into temptation in Canterbury at that time.
        The Long White Cloud: "Ao Tea Roa"
        4
        Everything will be pardoned to this poor stealer of shirts unless you object.
        One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories / Right Pleasaunte To...
        5
        He is a stealer of sheep, as I might have known.
        The Port of Missing Men
        6
        Juliet's nurse in The Bard's most celebrated romantic-tragedies is a scene-stealer.
        Independent.ie
        7
        But this compound was the property of the black marketeer Pung the child-stealer.
        Dancer’s Lament
        8
        Mr Kellyngs is marked out as the 'atom bomb stealer'.
        The William Companion
        9
        That soul-stealer, the one the Edict Keepers warn us of?
        Blameless
        10
        It's that unpredictability that renders her such a scene stealer.
        The Guardian
        11
        You are not by nature a criminal and a stealer of women, I know.
        The Stolen Singer
        12
        Why, the child-stealer himself, of course!' Wu pointed the rat.
        Dancer’s Lament
        13
        A buccaneer, a stealer of women-no ,itis no matter!
        The Trail of the Sword, Volume 3
        14
        Yet she is a headline stealer who hates the headlines.
        The Guardian
        15
        A "refugees welcome" banner was something of a show-stealer last year.
        The Guardian
        16
        He told me my father was a conjurer of magic and a stealer of souls.
        The First King of Shannara
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        Translations for stealer
        Spanish
        ladrón
        Stealer through the time
        Stealer across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common