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. noun. A handle; a stale, or stele.
2. transitive 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. transitive verb. To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
4. transitive verb. To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
5. transitive 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. transitive verb. To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
7. intransitive verb. To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
8. intransitive verb. To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
9. noun. 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. noun. an advantageous purchase

    "she got a bargain at the auction"

    "the stock was a real buy at that price"

    Synonyms: bargain, buy

11. verb. steal a base
12. verb. move stealthily

    "The ship slipped away in the darkness"

    Synonyms: slip

13. verb. take without the owner's consent

    "Someone stole my wallet on the train"

    "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

Synonyms

bargain, buy, slip

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in steal:

astel, lates, least, salet, setal, slate, stael, stale, stela, taels, tales, teals, tesla

Common word forms

steals, stealed, stealer, stealing, stealable

Words from these letters

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