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steal

steal is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A handle; a stale, or stele. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 13 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    A handle; a stale, or stele.

  2. 2transitive verb

    To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.

  3. 3transitive verb

    To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.

  4. 4transitive verb

    To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.

  5. 5transitive verb

    To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.

  6. 6transitive verb

    To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.

  7. 7intransitive verb

    To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.

  8. 8intransitive verb

    To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.

  9. 9noun

    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)

  10. 10noun

    an advantageous purchase

    "she got a bargain at the auction"

    "the stock was a real buy at that price"

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  11. 11verb

    steal a base

  12. 12verb

    move stealthily

    "The ship slipped away in the darkness"

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  13. 13verb

    take without the owner's consent

    "Someone stole my wallet on the train"

    "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

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