Synonyms for steal
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1. stealnoun

   Antonyms:
   earn, give back

2. stealnoun

   To illegally, or without the owner's permission, take possession of something by surreptitiously taking or carrying it away.

   Antonyms:
   give back, earn

3. stealnoun

   To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

   At this price, this car is a steal.

   Synonyms:
   bargain

   Antonyms:
   give back, earn

4. stealnoun

   To copy copyright-protected work without permission.

   Antonyms:
   earn, give back

5. stealverb

   To acquire at a low price.

   He stole the car for two thousand less than its book value.

   Antonyms:
   give back, earn

6. stealnoun

   Scoring in an end without the hammer.

   Antonyms:
   earn, give back

7. stealverb

   To move silently or secretly.

   He stole across the room, trying not to wake her.

   Antonyms:
   earn, give back

8. stealverb

   Antonyms:
   earn, give back

9. stealverb

   Antonyms:
   give back, earn

10. stealverb

    Synonyms:
    knock off, pocket, thieve, convert, lift, nick, jack, rob, half-inch, flog, confiscate, pinch

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1. stealverb

   The central idea of withdrawing makes abstract in common speech a euphemism for appropriate (unlawfully), purloin, steal. In mental processes we discriminate between objects by distinguishing their differences; we separate some one element from all that does not necessarily belong to it, abstract it, and view it alone. We may separate two ideas, and hold both in mind in comparison or contrast; but when we abstract one of them, we drop the other out of thought. The mind is abstracted when it is withdrawn from all other subjects and concentrated upon one, diverted when it is drawn away from what it would or should attend to by some other interest, distracted when the attention is divided among different subjects, so that it can not be given properly to any. The trouble with the distracted person is that he is not abstracted. Compare DISCERN.

   Synonyms:
   abstract, appropriate, detach, discriminate, distinguish, distract, divert, eliminate, purloin, remove, separate, take away, withdraw

   Antonyms:
   add, combine, complete, conjoin, fill up, increase, restore, strengthen, unite

   Preposition:
   The purse may be abstracted from the pocket; the substance from the accidents; a book into a compend.

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1. steal

   Synonyms:
   filch, pilfer, purloin, swindle, take by theft, peculate, embezzle, smuggle

   Antonyms:
   rob, plunder, ravage, maraud, back, pillage

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 4 votes

1. bargain, buy, stealnoun

   an advantageous purchase

   "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price"

   Synonyms:
   deal, bargain, buy

2. stealverb

   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)

   Synonyms:
   buy, bargain

3. stealverb

   take without the owner's consent

   "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

   Synonyms:
   slip

4. steal, slipverb

   move stealthily

   "The ship slipped away in the darkness"

   Synonyms:
   splay, drop away, fall away, slip one's mind, dislocate, slue, mistake, slip, skid, err, slide, drop off, slew, luxate, sneak

5. stealverb

   steal a base

   Synonyms:
   slip

Matched Categories

1. • Baseball
   • Gain
   • Move
   • Purchase

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1. fabadjective

   used informally while trying to explain a theft which you were a victim of although the stolen stuff is not relevant

   i don't know how they always get to fab my sweets even from a safe

   Submitted by fullmoonprofessor on February 7, 2022  

2. gleep

   filch, from old movies

   Submitted by anonymous on March 1, 2020  

3. trouser

   Submitted by anonymous on August 16, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stealverb

   Synonyms:
   purloin, pilfer, filch, CABBAGE, poach, peculate, embezzle, ROB, make off with, come unlawfully by

2. stealverb

   Synonyms:
   allure, win, gain, draw over

3. stealverb

   Synonyms:
   pilfer, purloin, thieve, practise theft

4. stealverb

   Synonyms:
   pass stealthily, go unperceived

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1. stealverb

   Synonyms:
   pilfer, filch, peculate, purloin, poach, abstract, rob, defraud, pirate, plunder, crib, pillage, rapine loot, thieve, embezzle, peculate, plagiarize, insinuate, creep furtively, go stealthily, sneak, slink, skulk, ratten

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1. List of paraphrases for "steal":

   fly, stealing, stolen, rob, flying, stole, steai, flies, vole

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How to use steal in a sentence?

1. Rick Meckler:

   In the case of Facebook and Google, they continue to just steal share, advertising share, from traditional sources. So they are truly shifting the pie towards them.

2. Mohammad Awad:

   It's impossible to have peace between us because the main conflict between us is on a piece of land which they took by force, so how can I let a person steal my land, live in it and enjoy it, and live with him in peace?

3. Wifredo Ferrer:

   The fact that this is so easy to commit is something that has been a real challenge to law enforcement because the fraudsters keep evolving, and they always find a new way to steal our identities, and all you need sometimes is a name, a date of birth and a Social Security number. And sometimes, you don't even need that to commit this crime.

4. Pat Cipollone:

   They're not here to steal one election. They're here to steal two elections, it's long past time we start this, so we can end this ridiculous charade and go have an election.

5. Mayor Tosi:

   It may have just been delinquents who thought: 'let's steal them and decide later what to do with them'.