Synonyms for steal
- verb
- noun
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Thieve
thieve, pilfer, make off with, sneak, skulk, swipe informal, embezzle, swindle, poach, snatch informal, borrow, pirate, plagiarize, plagiarise UK, confiscate, loot, misappropriate, heist, defraud, walk off with, abstract, slip, mooch informal UK
Other
liberate informal, moonlight requisition slang
Noun
1. Bargain — A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it
Other
Definitions
- v. 1
To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
They stole all my money (from me).
- n. 1
A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.
At this price, this car is a steal.
Related words
- Word family
- stealth
- Phrases
- steal away steal the show steal in shop steal steal the scene steal someone's thunder
- Is a kind of
- acquire take
Forms
- Plural
- steals → bargains, deals, thefts…
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The central idea of withdrawing makes abstract in common speech a euphemism for appropriate (unlawfully), purloin, steal.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- sneak We have to sneak in there and steal that computer.
- pilfer It is my intention to plunder and pilfer my weasely guts out.
- skulk A group of foxes is called a skulk.
By length
- 4 letters
- deal1, slip1, loot1
- 5 letters
- theft1, sneak1, swipe1, heist1, poach1, mooch, skulk1
- 6 letters
- borrow2, pirate2, snatch1, pilfer2, thieve1
- 7 letters
- bargain2, defraud2, swindle2
- 8 letters
- abstract2, liberate3, embezzle3
- 10 letters
- confiscate3, plagiarize3, plagiarise
- 14 letters
- misappropriate5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (borrow2 = 2 syllables).