steal
IPA: stˈiɫ
noun
- The act of stealing.
- (slang) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price.
- (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- (baseball) A stolen base.
- (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
verb
- (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
- (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
- (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
- (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
- (sports, transitive) To dispossess
- (informal, transitive, hyperbolic) To borrow for a short moment.
- (informal, transitive, humorous) take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing
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Examples of "steal" in Sentences
- The smuggler then steals money.
- Then the fiend steals the money.
- The Smuggler then steals the Viper.
- He steals the key to the nursery room.
- The cortege approaches and Igor steals on.
- Byron uses the commotion to steal the raft.
- In the night, Abdullah steals the genie and flees.
- Blob and the urpneys used it to steal the Dreamstone.
- He is beaten into unconsciousness for stealing the money.
- These days you apply for a license to steal from the public.
- The criminals lurking the cities in secrecy must steal weapons.
- And why would it be bad for a person to model (what you called steal) their philosophy off of someone.
- Government under Obama is a very lucrative profession, they get to steal from the taxpayers all the time.
- To be blunt, many of our elderly are merely a bunch of selfish rascals out to essentially steal from the young.
- It's actually a steal from the New York Times ... but it was so good when I first saw it that I had to grab it.
- He was sure that it was Striped Chipmunk's storehouse, and he wouldn't admit to himself that he was going to steal, actually _steal_.
- One of the rogues can steal powers from dead mutants, but is unable to steal from the antagonist because he managed to find a way to cure his mutation before his death.
- Stop believing in false gods like Sanford, or any of the myriad Christian evangelicals and politicians who cheat on their wives, hire prostitutes, do drugs, steal from the taxpayer, etc. Mike Moderate
- Iraq was held back by Iraqis 'beliefs that trust only extends to a narrow tribe, tribes compete for power on the basis of guns and violence, and government employment is a means to steal from the public rather than serve the public.