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Definition of Steal

1. Verb. Take without the owner's consent. "They steal the money "; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

2. Noun. An advantageous purchase. "The stock was a real buy at that price"

3. Verb. Move stealthily. "The ship slipped away in the darkness"

4. 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).

5. Verb. Steal a base.

Definition of Steal

1. n. A handle; a stale, or stele.

2. v. t. 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. v. i. To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.

Definition of Steal

1. Verb. (transitive) To illegally, or without the owner's permission, take possession of something by surreptitiously taking or carrying it away. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully. ¹

3. Verb. (copyright chiefly informal transitive) To copy copyright-protected work without permission. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive colloquial) To acquire at a low price. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive baseball) 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. ¹

8. Verb. (sports transitive) To dispossess ¹

9. Noun. The act of stealing. ¹

10. Noun. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price. ¹

11. Noun. (basketball hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team. ¹

12. Noun. (baseball) A stolen base. ¹

13. Noun. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer. ¹

14. Noun. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Steal

1. to take without right or permission [v STOLE or STAW, STOLEN, STEALING, STEALS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Steal

steak knives steak sauce steak sauces steak tartare steakburger steakburgers steakette steakettes steakhouse steakhouses

steakless steaklike steakmaker steakmakers steaks steal (current term) steal a glance steal a march steal away steal somebody's thunder

steal the show stealable stealage stealages steale stealed stealer stealers steales stealest

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