Dictionary
steal
Meaning
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- To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
- To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- (colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
- To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- To move silently or secretly.
- To convey (something) clandestinely.
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
- To dispossess
- (informal) To borrow for a short moment.
- (informal) take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing
Pronounced as (IPA)
/stiːl/
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