Thieve

Definition: Thieve

Thieve

Verb

1. Take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!".

Date "thieve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Thieve \Thieve\, transitive and intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Thieved; present participle verb or noun Thieving.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Thieve

Synonyms: cop (v), glom (v), hook (v), knock off (v), snitch (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Stealing	Verb: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Thieve

English words defined with "thieve": Thieved, To steal a march. (references)

"Thieve" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Thieve" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	60%	6	143,867
Noun (singular)	20%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	10%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	10%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "thieve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vjedh (cop, Frisk, hook, lift, mooch, nobble, peculate, pilfer, pinch, prig, purloin, Rob, salvage, scrounge, snitch, steal, take away, walk off with). (various references)

Arabic		‏مارس السرقة, ‏سرق (convey, crib, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, nobble, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, steal, swipe, walk off with). (various references)

Bulgarian		крада (filch, knap, lift, loot, mooch, plunder, poach, prig, purloin, rustle, scarp, snitch, steal, win). (various references)

Czech		ukrást (filch, make away, purloin, take), krást (steal). (various references)

Farsi		دزدیدن (Embezzle, Peak, Picaroonp, Pick, Prig, Purloin, Rifle, Rob, Spoliate, Steal), دزدی کردن . (various references)

Finnish		varastella (pilfer, practise theft). (various references)

French		voler. (various references)

German		stehlen (abstract, burgle, heist, pilfer, rustle, scrump, steal, stolen (from), thieving, to cabbage, to steal), Dieb (burglar, filcher, larcenist, mugger, pilferer, plunder, purloiner, scrounger, theft, thief). (various references)

Greek		κλέβω (cheat, elope, filch, nab, pick pockets, pinch, purloin, snaffle, snitch, steal), κλέπτω (cop, crib, defalcate, embezzle, kidnap, purloin, rifle, scrounge, snitch, steal, swipe). (various references)

Hebrew		לגנוב (filch, purloin, snitch, steal, walk off with). (various references)

Hungarian		tolvajkodik (to pilfer), lop (abstract, filch, lift, steal, to filch, to fork, to heist, to nick, to pole, to pull, to rob). (various references)

Indonesian		mencuri (bone, filch, nab, pilfer, sneak). (various references)

Italian		rubare (abstract, heist, lift, maraud, Nick, pinch, purloin, rape, rob, rustle, snatch, steal, stolen, swipe, take). (various references)

Manx		geid (kidnap, larceny, pinch, pocket, purloin, rustle, steal, thievery, thieving). (various references)

Pig Latin		ievethay

Portuguese		roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle funds, extort money, faked, file, grab-all, holdback, kidnapper, loot, lurcher, make away with oneself, nab, picayune, pick, piratical, plunder, priggish, purloin, rifle, Rob, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snitch, snoop, steal, strip, swipe, take away), furtar (cabbage, dodge, filch, nab, prey, prig, purloin, Rob, scrounge, shoplift, snoop, steal, swipe). (various references)

Romanian		fura (abstract, crib, defalcate, embezzle, filch, hook, kidnap, knock off, lift, make away with, nibble, nim, pick pockets, pilfer, pill, pinch, plagiarize, poach, prig, purloin, Raven, reave, snake, steal), fi hoţ. (various references)

Russian		украсть (crook, filch, nobble, pinch, snaffle, steal, walk off with). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ukrasti (filch, finger, lift, pilfer, purloin, rob, snitch, steal, swipe, walk off with), krasti (prig, rustle, steal). (various references)

Spanish		robar (abstract, burglarize, burgle, draw, pinch, pluck, remove, rob, scrounge, steal, twist, walk away, walk off). (various references)

Swedish		tillgripa (appropriate), stjäla (abstract, cop, hustle, purloin, rustle, steal, take). (various references)

Thai		ขโมย (cop, lurcher, mooch, steal, thief). (various references)

Turkish		hırsızlık yapmak (break into, heist, Rob, steal), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Turkmen		ogramak. (various references)

Ukranian		красти (appropriate, borrow, cabbage, gyp, mooch, nim, plunder, poach, purloin, snip, steal, swipe). (various references)

Welsh		lladrata (steal). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "thieve": thieved, thieveries, thievery, thieves. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Thieve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Btrieve, shieve, Thaabe, t'have, theef, theeve, theief, theif, theve, thiaf, thiege, thiele, thieme, thiere, thiof, thiv, thive, thrieve, tiefe, tiege, Tikva, trieve. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words ending with "ieve": Chieve, Prieve, sieve. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-t-v"
	-1 letter: evite.
	-2 letters: hive, thee.
	-3 letters: eth, eve, het, hie, hit, tee, the, tie, vee, vet, vie.
	-4 letters: eh, et, he, hi, it, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-t-v"
	+1 letter: thieved, thieves.
	+2 letters: heaviest, thievery.
	+3 letters: kvetchier, shelviest.
	+4 letters: everything, exhaustive, exhibitive, kvetchiest, outachieve, overweight, seventieth, thieveries.
	+5 letters: achievement, exhortative, harvesttime, heavenliest, heavyweight, hyperactive, hypotensive, novelettish, outachieved, outachieves, overheating, overlighted, overnighted, overnighter, overtighten, overweights, seventieths, shirtsleeve, theirselves.
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