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Definition: Steal |
StealNoun1. An advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price". Verb1. Take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation". 2. Move stealthily; "The ship slipped away in the darkness". 3. Steal a base, in baseball. 4. To go stealthily or furtively: "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "steal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Steal A handle. Stealing - putting handles on (Yorkshire). This is the Anglo-Saxon stela (a stalk or handle). "Steale or handell of a staffe, manche, hante!" Palsgrave. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Catalan (fotre), English (jay), Hungarian (megfújni ), Russian (khapat' , spizdit'). (references) |
Slang | Jay. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In poker, the term steal is often used as merely a synonym for bluff, but there is a more specific use of the term which is also called an "ante steal" or "blind steal" (depending on whether the game being played uses antes or blinds). This play is used either in late Position after several people have folded or when the game is short-handed. It is to raise with a hand less valuable than what might normally be considered a raising hand, with the hope that the few players remaining will not have a hand worth calling the raise, thereby winning the antes or blinds without further action.While steals like this don't win much money per hand, they can accumulate to considerable profit if the players to your left are passive enough to not contest many of your steals. Of course, skilled players will recognize repeated steal plays and frequently call for defense.
- See also : Poker
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Theft, in law, is usually the broadest term for a crime against property. It is a general term that encompasses offences such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, and/or criminal conversion. Legally, theft is generally considered to be synonymous with larceny.In the common law theft is usually defined as the unauthorised taking or use of someone else's property with the intent to deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use.
As with other common law crimes, it is composed of two elements, the actus reus — the unauthorized taking or use — and the intent to deprive — the mens reas. Thus if one goes to a restaurant and by accident one takes someone else's hat or scarf instead of one's own hat or scarf, one has deprived someone of the use of their property and has taken the other person's property in an unauthorized manner, but without the intent to deprive the person (hum, this is a much nicer scarf than mine or he'll never notice the spot on the hat until he gets home) there is no criminal act (actus reus) and thus no crime. Note that there may be civil liability, by depriving someone of their property you may be liable for damages in a civil court, but without proof of your intent to deprive, no criminal act has occurred.
See also: motor vehicle theft
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Synonyms: StealSynonyms: bargain (n), buy (n), creep (v), mouse (v), pussyfoot (v), slip (v), sneak (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Look sharp; have all one's eyes about one; (vigilance); rise, arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march, kill two birds with one stone; seize the opportunity; lose no time, not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of; dash off; make haste; do one's best take pains; (exert oneself); do wonders, work wonders. |
Concealment | Be concealed; Verb: suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush); seclude oneself; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep, play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt. |
Cunning | Verb: be cunning; Adjective: have cut one's eyeteeth; contrive; (plan); live by one's wits; maneuver; intrigue, gerrymander, finesse, double, temporize, stoop to conquer, reculer pour mieux sauter, circumvent, steal a march upon; overreach; throw off one's guard; surprise; snatch a verdict; waylay, undermine, introduce the thin end of the wedge; play a deep game, play tricks with; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces; flatter, make things pleasant; have an ax to grind. |
Deception | Phrase: "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope"; fronti nulla fides; "ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes"; "a quicksand of deceit"; decipimur specie recti; falsi crimen; fraus est celare fraudem; lupus in fabula; "so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue". |
Cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live by one's wits, play at hide and seek; obtain money under false pretenses; (steal); conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon. | |
Circumvent, overreach; outreach, out wit, out maneuver; steal a march upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch | |
Drunkenness | Phrase: nunc est bibendum; "Bacchus ever fair and young"; "drink down all unkindness"; "O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains". |
Earliness | Verb: be early; Adjective:, be beforehand; adVerb: keep time, take time by the forelock, anticipate, forestall; have the start, gain the start; steal a march upon; gain time, draw on futurity; bespeak, secure, engage, preengage. |
Inexpectation | Be unexpected; Adjective: come unawares; adVerb: turn up, pop, drop from the clouds; come upon one, burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon one, steal upon one, creep upon one; come like a thunder clap, burst like a thunderclap, thunder bolt; take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch unawares, catch napping; yach. |
Precession | Verb: go before, go ahead, go in the van, go in advance; precede, forerun; usher in, introduce, herald, head, take the lead; lead the way, lead the dance; get the start, have the start; steal a march; get before, get ahead, get in front of; outstrip; take precedence; (first in order). |
Priority | Be beforehand; (be early); steal a march upon, anticipate, forestall; have the start, gain the start. |
Slowness | Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late). |
Stealing | Verb: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize. |
Taking | Take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave. |
Transcursion | Verb: transgress, surpass, pass; go beyond, go by; show in front, come to the front; shoot ahead of; steal a march upon, steal a gain upon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Steal |
| English words defined with "steal": aboveboard ♦ badly, Black act, break, break in, burglar, burglary ♦ cracksman ♦ despoil ♦ foray ♦ honestly ♦ kleptomania, kleptomaniac ♦ larcenous, loot ♦ pillage, plunder, Prog ♦ ransack, reave, rifle ♦ safebreaker, safecracker, shoplift, strip ♦ thievishness, To put the hand unto, To steal a march ♦ Unhoard, upstage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "steal": Cock Sure ♦ Decalogue ♦ GINNY ♦ half-inch, HEAVERS ♦ KNUCKLES ♦ LULLY TRIGGERS ♦ Money ♦ Nym ♦ Peaches ♦ READER MERCHANTS, RESURRECTION MEN, rip the ball ♦ scamming ice, Spoons, SQUARE, Steal a Horse, Steal a March on One, Stolen Things are Sweet, sycophant ♦ TO KNUCKLE ONE'S WIPE ♦ Watch ♦ yoink, Yumboes ♦ ZAPP. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "steal": Sudden. (references) |
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Screenplays | Why? Did you steal this car (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman. Based on the novel by Gregory McDonald.) He wouldn't steal nothing (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin) How can you steal a house (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs) What did they steal from you (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Why would anybody want to steal a groundhog (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) | |
Lyrics | Always have to steal my kisses from you (Steal My Kisses; performing artist: Ben Harper) Steal a car and go to Las Vegas oh, the gigolo pool (EYES WITHOUT A FACE; performing artist: Billy Idol) After he took from you everything he could steal ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan) And we'd steal away every chance we could (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger) Steal the sun from the sky for you (I'll Be There For You; performing artist: Bon Jovi) | |
Clever | A dog who attends a flea circus most likely will steal the whole show. (references; author: unknown) To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | How to Steal an Airplane (1972) Never Steal Anything Small (1959) Steal Wool (1957) The Big Steal (1949) Borrow or Steal Beg (1937) | |
Song Titles | Steal Away (performing artist: Jimmy Hughes) Steal My Sunshine (performing artist: Len) Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (performing artist: Pentangle) Steal Away (performing artist: Robbie Dupree) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Cowley | And steal one day out of thy life to live. |
Alexander Pope | Most authors steal their works, or buy. |
James Jeffrey Roche | Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author. |
Josh Billings | To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately. |
| About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. | |
Mario Puzo | A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. |
Philip Massinger | Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. |
William Shakespeare | O God, that any one should put an enemy in their mouth to steal away their brains. |
Wilson Mizner. | If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Are you telling me, he said, "that you set yourself up to become President of the Galaxy just to steal that ship? |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To gather laurels and to steal the shoes from a dead man, seems to us impossible to the same hand |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The silent hours steal on, And flaky darkness breaks within the east |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | People says they steal. |
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Health | But over the years it can steal your sight. (references) | |
Business | While immobilizer and transponder keys have decreased the need to install additional anti-theft devices (a notable characteristic in Italy due to its average of one car theft per minute), there is a strong presence of alarm systems and anti-theft products, both electronic and mechanic due to the abundance of old cars. Potential thieves seeking a car to steal are thus more likely to concentrate on the older, unprotected cars rather than take a risk with the new ones. Owners of second-hand cars with low-grade immobilizers are increasingly installing higher-end systems. (references) | |
Children | Central African Republic | Many children beg and steal. (references) |
Guatemala | A similar press report on July 2 reported that police apprehended "baby stealers" who allegedly tried to buy, and then steal the baby of a mother as she was leaving the hospital. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | The Nigerians also accused the police of encouraging groups of youths to steal from them. (references) |
Human Rights | Congo | Guards have been known to steal food brought to prisoners. (references) |
South Africa | NGO's reported that prison employees steal food from prisoners. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | Guards, who are poorly paid, steal food and medicines intended for prisoners. (references) | |
Minorities | Togo | Many citizens believe that Nigerian Ibos kill young women, drain their blood, and steal their sex organs to perform voodoo to accumulate wealth, health, or protection. (references) |
Bulgaria | In July an unidentified assailant shot a Rom, Tudor Todorov, who was attempting to steal almonds from a private orchard; Todorov was taken to the hospital in critical condition. (references) | |
Travel | Kenya | Thieves on buses and trains may steal valuables from inattentive passengers. (references) |
Worker Rights | Portugal | Typically upon arrival at the Spanish border, "bandits" working on behalf of the trafficking rings steal money from the trafficked persons and often steal or confiscate their passports. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice. Following is the revised edition of the Decalogue, calculated for this meridian. Thou shalt no God but me adore: 'Twere too expensive to have more. No images nor idols make For Robert Ingersoll to break. Take not God's name in vain; select A time when it will have effect. Work not on Sabbath days at all, But go to see the teams play ball. Honor thy parents. That creates For life insurance lower rates. Kill not, abet not those who kill; Thou shalt not pay thy butcher's bill. Kiss not thy neighbor's wife, unless Thine own thy neighbor doth caress Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete Successfully in business. Cheat. Bear not false witness -- that is low -- But "hear 'tis rumored so and so." Cover thou naught that thou hast not By hook or crook, or somehow, got. G.J. |
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Rush Limbaugh | The Democrats scare their voters into thinking that, if you don't vote for the Democratic candidate, the Republican will kill your grandmother, put arsenic in the water, steal food from Little Timmy's mouth and destroy the earth itself. |
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George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. |
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| "Steal" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.42% of the time. "Steal" is used about 898 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) | 75.42% | 677 | 9,752 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 23.25% | 209 | 21,011 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.33% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 898 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "steal": it's a steal ♦ pick and steal ♦ steal a gain upon ♦ steal a glance ♦ steal a glance at ♦ steal a glance at smb. ♦ steal a kiss ♦ steal a look at smb. ♦ steal a march on smb. ♦ steal a march upon ♦ steal away ♦ steal by ♦ steal every single thing ♦ steal flag ♦ steal in ♦ steal into ♦ steal off ♦ steal on ♦ steal out ♦ steal over ♦ steal smb.'s thunder ♦ steal the show ♦ steal up ♦ steal up to ♦ steal upon ♦ Subclavian Steal Syndrome ♦ To steal a march. Additional references. | |
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| 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 "steal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | steel (abstract). (various references) | |
Albanian | zhduk (bump off, conceal, disperse, efface, eradicate, hide, kill, obliterate, overturn, Rob, stave off, wipe, wipe out), vjedhje (abduction, burglary, larceny, lift, peculation, picking, pinch, rapine, robbery, stealing, stealth, theft, thievery, trousering), vjedh (cop, Frisk, hook, lift, mooch, nobble, peculate, pilfer, pinch, prig, purloin, Rob, salvage, scrounge, snitch, take away, thieve, walk off with), robëroj (captivate, enslave), pushtoj gradualisht, përvidhem (steal away, steal up), ik vjedhurazi (slink), grabis (break in, burgle, hold up, pillage, pirate, pluck, plunder, prey, prey upon, Rob), bëj vjedhurazi, arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, succeed, take, take care, top, total, touch). (various references) | |
Arabic | سلب (bereave, depredation, desiccation, despoil, dispossess, dispossession, divest, evisceration, flay, fleece, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, plundering, raid, ransack, rape, rapine, ravish, ravishment, rejoice, riffle, rifle, rob, robbery, sack, skin, spoil, spoliation, stick up, strip), سرقة (larceny, lift, pilfering, pinch, plunder, robbery, stealing, stealthiness, stick up, theft, thievery, trash), سرق (convey, crib, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, nobble, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, swipe, thieve, walk off with), صفقة رابحة (bargain, buy, good buy), خطف (abduct, carry off, gobble, hijack, kidnap, kidnapping, lift off, nobble, ravish, seizing, snatching, whip), الشئ المسروق, إنسل (creep, lurk, sneak), إختلس (embezzle, misappropriate, palm, purloin, rob, scrounge, siphon, snaffle, snatch, snitch, subtilize). (various references) | |
Basque | lapurtu. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съмнителна политическа спогодба, кражба (job, larceny, lift, pinch, rip off, robbery, stealing, theft, thievery), крадене (stealing, thievery), крада (filch, knap, lift, loot, mooch, plunder, poach, prig, purloin, rustle, scarp, snitch, thieve, win), грабвам изненадващо, открадвам си с хитрост, открадвам (kidnap, make away with, nip, nobble, pick, pinch, pull, purloin, run away with, snatch, walk away with, walk off with), открадната вещ, нещо неочаквано лесно, неочаквана добра сделка, прокрадвам се (insinuate), правя нещо незабелязано, придобивам по непозволен начин, измъквам се крадешком. (various references) | |
Chinese | 窃取 (stealing, stolen), 竊 (I beg to presume), 盜竊 , 盜 (a thief, bandit, plunder, rob, robber), 偷竊 (theft). (various references) | |
Croatian | ukrali. (various references) | |
Czech | krást (thieve). (various references) | |
Danish | stjæle (abstract). (various references) | |
Dutch | sluipen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kaŝiri, ŝteliri, ŝteli, ŝtala (of steal), "telis. (various references) | |
Faeroese | stjala (abstract), sníkja seg avstað. (various references) | |
Farsi | ربودن (Abduct, Abstract, Bag, Betake, Get, Grab, Hook, Purloin, Ravish, Reave, Rob, Snatch, Usurp), دستبردزدن (Rob), دزدیدن (Embezzle, Peak, Picaroonp, Pick, Prig, Purloin, Rifle, Rob, Spoliate, Thieve), بلندکردن چیزی , بسرقت بردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | varastaa (abstract, commit a theft). (various references) | |
French | voler, dérober. (various references) | |
Frisian | stielen (of steal). (various references) | |
German | stehlen (abstract, burgle, heist, pilfer, rustle, scrump, stolen (from), thieve, thieving, to cabbage, to steal), entwenden (abstract, misappropriate, purloin, turn away). (various references) | |
Greek | κλέβω (cheat, elope, filch, nab, pick pockets, pinch, purloin, snaffle, snitch, thieve). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"ת' ב (creep, insinuate, pussyfoot, slink, slip, sneak, steal away), ל'זול (loot, maraud, plunder), ל' וב (filch, purloin, snitch, thieve, walk off with), ' ב (burglar, robber, sneak thief, snitch, thief). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lop (abstract, filch, lift, thieve, to filch, to fork, to heist, to nick, to pole, to pull, to rob). (various references) | |
Icelandic | stela (abstract). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ngangglap (default, embezzle, welsh), mencomoti, mencolong, gait (purloin, swipe, wheedle), curi (surreptitious), cilok (pick pocket, pilfer). (various references) | |
Irish | goid. (various references) | |
Italian | rubare (abstract, heist, lift, maraud, Nick, pinch, purloin, rape, rob, rustle, snatch, stolen, swipe, take, thieve). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 猫糞 (embezzle, pocket), 猫ばば (embezzle, pocket), ステアリン酸 (dance step, stacker, state, status, stearic acid, Stegodon, Stegosaurus, step, step-by-step, stepfamily, steppe, stepping, steps, stick, sticker, stinger, stitch, thingirl), スタンプ販売 (robot, stamp trading, steam, steam bath, steam engine, steam hammer, steam heater, steam iron, steam turbine, steel, steel collar worker, steel file, steel guitar, steel nail file, steel radial, steel sash, still), 偸 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ね"ばば (embezzle, pocket), つ, スチール (steel, still), スティール , とう (and the like, be frozen over, building, cane, child, congeal, counter for large animals, engraving tool, et cetera, etc., foolishness, freeze, ground spider, knife, pagoda, party, place, rattan, saber, section, servant, sickle, sugar, sword, T'ang-Dynasty, to accuse, to ask, to charge, to question, tower, without regard to). (various references) | |
Korean | "치십시". (various references) | |
Malay | mencuri (abstract), curi (abstract). (various references) | |
Manx | myngyraght (pilfer, pilfering), geid (kidnap, larceny, pinch, pocket, purloin, rustle, thieve, thievery, thieving). (various references) | |
Norwegian | stjele (abstract, lift). (various references) | |
Papiamen | roba (abstract, plunder, rob), hòrta (abstract). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ealstay.(various references) | |
Polish | kraść (abstract). (various references) | |
Portuguese | roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle, extort, fake, filch, grab, hold up, kidnap, loot, lurch, make away with, nab, picaroon, pick, pirate, plunder, prig, purloin, rifle, rob, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snitch, snoop, strip, swipe, take away, thieve), furtar (cabbage, dodge, filch, nab, prey, prig, purloin, rob, scrounge, shoplift, snoop, swipe, thieve). (various references) | |
Romanian | se furişa (crawl, creep, filter, mouse about, slink, slip, sneak, wriggle), 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, thieve). (various references) | |
Russian | стаскивать (pull off), украсть (crook, filch, nobble, pinch, snaffle, thieve, walk off with), угонять (drive away), увезти (carry away, kidnap, take away), красть;захватывать (steals), красть (abstract, crib, lift, pilfer, purloin, rustle, snitch, swipe), кража (heist, larceny, lift, pinch, robbery, theft, thievery), воровать (cabbage, mooch, pilfer, prig, purloin, thieve), прокрадываться. (various references) | |
Scottish | goid (abstract, pilfer, pilfering, slip away by stealth, slipping away by stealth, stealing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ukrasti (filch, finger, lift, pilfer, purloin, rob, snitch, swipe, thieve, walk off with), potkradati (creep in), pokrasti (clean out, rob), nakrasti, krasti (prig, rustle, thieve), dobar posao (good buy). (various references) | |
Spanish | robar (abstract, burglarize, burgle, draw, pinch, pluck, remove, Rob, scrounge, thieve, twist, walk away, walk off), hurtar (crib, encroach on, heist, purloin, rob, rustle, thieve). (various references) | |
Sranan | fufuru (abstract, abstraction, theft). (various references) | |
Swedish | stjäla (abstract, cop, hustle, purloin, rustle, take, thieve), smyga sig (mooch, sidle, skulk, sneak). (various references) | |
Thai | ขโมย (cop, lurcher, mooch, thief, thieve). (various references) | |
Turkish | sessizce hareket etmek, kelepir eşya, hırsızlama yapmak, hırsızlık yapmak (break into, heist, Rob, thieve), hırsızlık (burglary, heist, hijack, hijacking, larceny, pilferage, rip off, robbery, shoplifting, shop-lifting, theft, thievery), gizlice koymak (steal into), axirmak (abstract), araklamak (abstract, pilfer), aşırmak (abstract, bag, cop, crib, filch, help oneself to, hoist, hook, make off with, mooch, pass over, pilfer, prig, purloin, scrounge, snaffle, snitch, walk off with, whip), 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, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip), çalıntı eşya, çaktırmadan yapmak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | ogurlamak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | робити непомітно, красти (appropriate, borrow, cabbage, gyp, mooch, nim, plunder, poach, purloin, snip, swipe, thieve), крадіжка (larceny, rip off, robbery, stealing, stealth, theft, thievery), крадене майно, викрадати (carry off, ravish, reave). (various references) | |
Welsh | lladrata (thieve), dwyn (bear, bring, take). (various references) | |
Yucatec | ookol (abstract), ooklik (abstract). (various references) | |
Zulu | -eba (abstract). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abegit, abigantur, abigebat, abigere, abigerunt, abigo, ablata, ablatas, ablati, ablatis, ablatisque, ablato, ablatum, ablatus, abstulerant, abstuleris, abstulero, abstulerunt, abstuleruntque, abstuli, abstulissent, abstulisti, abstulit, amore, amoris, amotis, amoto, amotus, amove, amoveamus, amovebis, amoverent, amoveret, amoverunt, amovet, amovete, amovi, amovit, aufer, auferam, auferamini, auferant, auferas, auferat, auferatis, auferatur, auferemini, auferendam, auferendo, auferens, auferent, auferentem, auferentes, auferentesque, auferenti, auferentur, auferes, auferet, auferetis, auferetur, auferre, auferrent, auferres, auferret, auferretur, auferri, aufers, aufert, auferte, aufertis, auferto, aufertur, auferuntur, aversa, aversae, aversi, aversum, aversus, avertam, avertantur, avertas, avertat, avertatur, averte, avertebant, avertens, avertent, avertente, avertentem, avertentur, avertere, averterem, averterentur, averteret, averteris, averterit, averterunt, avertes, avertet, avertetur, averti, avertis, avertissem, avertisset, avertisti, avertit, avertite, avertitque, avertuntur, chalybæus, clepere, clepsere, corripio, fraudamur, fraudare, fraudasti, fraudati, fraudatis, fraudatus, fraudavit, fraudem, fraudes, fraudo, furabatur, furaberis, furandum, furari, furata, furati, furatur, furatus, furentur, furer, furere, fureris, furetur, furor, latrocinor, rapio, sublata, sublati, sublatis, sublato, sublatoque, sublatum, sublatus, subripiat, subripuit, sustulerat, sustulerunt, sustuli, sustulimus, sustulissemus, sustulissent, sustulisti, sustulistis, sustulit, tollam, tollamque, tollamus, tollant, tollar, tollas, tollat, tollatur, tolle, tollebant, tollebat, tollebatis, tollebatque, tollemus, tollendo, tollens, tollensque, tollent, tollentes, tollentibus, tollentque, tollentur, tollere, tollerem, tollerent, tollerentur, tolleret, tolles, tollesque, tollet, tolletis, tolletisque, tolletque, tolletur, tollis, tollit, tollite, tollitis, tollitur, tollo, tollor, tolluntur. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | forstelan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ina mh plhsqeiV yeudhV genwmai kai eipw tiV me ora h penhqeiV kleyw kai omosw to onoma tou qeou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ne forte saturatus inliciar ad negandum et dicam quis est Dominus et egestate conpulsus furer et peierem nomen Dei mei |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Lest par auenture I fulfild, be drawen to denyen, and seie, Who is the Lord? and thury nede constreyned, stele, and forswere the name of my God. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Tingali unya ako mabusog, ug magalimod kanimo, ug magaingon: Kinsa ba si Jehova? Kun tingali unya ako mahimong kabus, ug mangawat, Ug magagamit sa walay hinungdan sa ngalan sa akong Dios. |
| Croatian | inaèe bih, presitivši se, zatajio tebe i rekao: "Tko je Jahve?" Ili bih, osiromašivši, krao i oskvrnio ime Boga svojega. |
| Danish | at jeg ikke skal blive for mæt og fornægte og sige: "Hvo er HERREN?" eller blive for fattig og stjæle og volde min Guds Navn Men. |
| Dutch | Opdat ik, zat zijnde, U dan niet verloochene, en zegge: Wie is de HEERE? of dat ik, verarmd zijnde, dan niet stele, en den Naam mijns Gods aantaste. |
| Finnish | etten kylläisenä tulisi kieltäjäksi ja sanoisi: "Kuka on Herra?" ja etten köyhtyneenä varastaisi ja rikkoisi Jumalani nimeä vastaan. |
| French | De peur que, dans l`abondance, je ne te renie Et ne dise: Qui est l`Éternel? Ou que, dans la pauvreté, je ne dérobe, Et ne m`attaque au nom de mon Dieu. |
| German | Ich möchte sonst, wo ich zu satt würde, verleugnen und sagen: Wer ist der HERR? Oder wo ich zu arm würde, möchte ich stehlen und mich an dem Namen meines Gottes vergreifen. |
| Hungarian | Hogy megelégedvén, meg ne tagadjalak, és azt ne mondjam: kicsoda az Úr? Se pedig megszegényedvén, ne lopjak, és gonoszul ne éljek az én Istenem nevével! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebab, apabila aku kaya, mungkin aku akan berkata bahwa aku tidak memerlukan Engkau. Dan jika aku miskin, mungkin aku akan mencuri sehingga mencemarkan nama-Mu." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | lamun jangan dengan mewahku aku menyangkal akan Dikau sambil kataku: Siapakah Tuhan itu? atau jangan dari sebab kepapaanku aku mulai mencuri dan menghujat akan nama Allahku. |
| Italian | perché, una volta sazio, io non ti rinneghi e dica: «Chi è il Signore?», oppure, ridotto all'indigenza, non rubi e profani il nome del mio Dio. |
| Maori | Kei makona ahau, a ka whakakahore ki a koe, ka mea, Ko wai a Ihowa? Kei rawakore ranei ahau, a ka whanako, ka whakahua noa hoki i te ingoa o toku Atua. |
| Norwegian | forat jeg ikke når jeg blir mett, skal fornekte dig og si: Hvem er Herren? og ikke når jeg blir fattig, stjele og forbanne min Guds navn! |
| Portuguese | para que eu de farto não te negue, e diga: Quem é o Senhor? ou, empobrecendo, não venha a furtar, e profane o nome de Deus. |
| Rumanian | Ca nu cumva, kn belwug, sq mq lepqd de Tine, wi sq zic: ,,Cine este Domnul?`` Sau ca nu cumva kn sqrqcie, sq fur, wi sq iau kn dewert Numele Dumnezeului Meu. - |
| Spanish | no sea que me sacie y te niegue, o diga: "¿Quién es Jehovah?" No sea que me empobrezca y robe, y profane el nombre de mi Dios. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "steal": stealable, stealage, stealages, stealer, stealers, stealing, stealings, steals, stealth, stealthier, stealthiest, stealthily, stealthiness, stealthinesses, stealths, stealthy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "steal": endosteal, osteal, periosteal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "steal": endosteally. (additional references) | |
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"Steal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estal, ostial, satal, satefl, Satelo, sceal, Seaql, setal, Setubal, shemaal, Smeal, speal, sqeal, staal, stael, stahl, stalg, stea, steale, Steall, steap, steaw, stebal, steelo, steil, stel, Stell, steral, sterl, stiap, stila, stoal, sveal, tsal, Tsehai. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "steal" (pronounced stē"l) |
| 4 | s t ē" l | steel. |
| 3 | -t ē" l | genteel, teal, teel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: least, setal, slate, stale, stela, taels, tales, teals, tesla. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ales, alts, ates, east, eats, etas, lase, last, late, lats, leas, lest, lets, sale, salt, sate, seal, seat, seta, slat, tael, tale, teal, teas, tela, tels. | |
-2 letters: ale, als, alt, ate, eat, els, eta, las, lat, lea, let, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, tae, tas, tea, tel. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, as, at. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ablest, aglets, alates, alerts, alters, artels, bleats, castle, cleats, deltas, desalt, eclats, elates, estral, exalts, festal, halest, haslet, lamest, lasted, laster, latens, latest, lathes, latkes, lattes, laxest, leasts, lysate, metals, osteal, palest, palets, pastel, petals, plates, pleats, ratels, sallet, salted, salter, saltie, salute, samlet, septal, shelta, slated, slater, slates, slatey, solate, stable, staled, staler, stales, staple, steals, stelae, stelai, stelar, stella, tables, talers, tassel, teasel, tepals, teslas, valets, vestal. | |
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