Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A handle; a stale, or stele.
- 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.
- 3transitive verb
To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
- 4transitive verb
To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
- 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.
- 6transitive verb
To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
- 7intransitive verb
To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
- 8intransitive verb
To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
- 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)
- 10noun
an advantageous purchase
"she got a bargain at the auction"
"the stock was a real buy at that price"
- 11verb
steal a base
- 12verb
move stealthily
"The ship slipped away in the darkness"
Synonyms
- 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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