Stealing - English meaning

verb

Leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to escape from custody or avoid arrest.

Usage examples:

The barman absconded with a week's takings

verb

Run away, often taking something or somebody along

verb

To go away suddenly and secretly in order to escape from somewhere

Usage examples:

Abscond from she absconded from boarding school and hitchhiked to the city., two prisoners absconde…

adjective

Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.

Usage examples:

Abstract concepts such as love or beauty

verb

Consider something theoretically or separately from (something else).

Usage examples:

To abstract science and religion from their historical context can lead to anachronism

noun

A summary of the contents of a book, article, or speech.

Usage examples:

An abstract of her speech

adjective

Suitable or proper in the circumstances.

Usage examples:

This isn't the appropriate time or place

verb

Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

Usage examples:

The accused had appropriated the property

Suitable for a particular person, place, or situation

noun

A bar that slides into a socket to fasten a door or window.

Usage examples:

He reached through the hole in the door and slid the bolt on the inside.

verb

Fasten (a door or window) with a bar that slides into a socket.

Usage examples:

All the doors were locked and bolted

verb

(of a horse or other animal) run away suddenly, typically from fear.

Usage examples:

The horses shied and bolted

verb

Move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed.

Usage examples:

He crept downstairs, hardly making any noise

noun

A detestable person.

Usage examples:

I thought he was a nasty little creep

verb

Move slowly

verb

Leave a place suddenly or secretly.

Usage examples:

Now he has decamped to hollywood

verb

To leave suddenly and unexpectedly, usually without telling anyone

Usage examples:

He decamped from the hotel with someone else's luggage.

verb

Cease to be visible.

Usage examples:

He disappeared into the trees

verb

(of a person or thing) to go to a place or into a condition where the person or thing cannot be seen

Usage examples:

She disappeared into the house., he disappeared for a few hours (= went somewhere unknown)., they w…

noun

The outside limit of an object, area, or surface.

Usage examples:

A willow tree at the water's edge

verb

Provide with a border or edge.

Usage examples:

The pool is edged with paving

verb

A line determining the limits of an area

verb

Steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works).

Usage examples:

She had embezzled £5,600,000 in company funds

verb

To secretly and illegally take money that is in your care or that belongs to an organization or business you work for

Usage examples:

They were arrested for the embezzlement of company funds.

verb

To steal money that is in your care or that belongs to an organization or business you work for

Usage examples:

While employed as business banking manager of the bank, he embezzled £300,000., embezzle sth from s…

verb

Run away from a place or situation of danger.

Usage examples:

To escape the fighting, his family fled from their village

verb

Run away quickly

verb

To escape by running away, esp. because of danger or fear

Usage examples:

[ i ] an fbi spokesman said stewart fled before police arrived.

verb

Move with a smooth, quiet continuous motion.

Usage examples:

A few gondolas glided past

noun

A gliding movement.

Usage examples:

The cuckoo makes its approach in a hawklike glide

noun

Private property taken from an enemy in war.

Usage examples:

The rooms were stuffed with the loot from francis's expeditions into italy

verb

Steal goods from (a place), typically during a war or riot.

Usage examples:

Desperate residents looted shops for food and water

verb

(said esp. of large numbers of people) to steal from stores

Usage examples:

[ i ] riot police were sent to prevent the mob from looting., [ t ] the officers of the corporation…

verb

Dishonestly or unfairly take (something, especially money, belonging to another) for one's own use.

Usage examples:

The report revealed that department officials had misappropriated funds

verb

To steal something that you have been trusted to manage and use it for your own benefit

Usage examples:

He misappropriated $30,000 to pay for personal travel.

verb

To steal something that you have been asked to take care of, and use it for yourself

Usage examples:

The court found that he had misappropriated €50,000 intended for investment on behalf of a customer…

noun

A thick piece of soft material, typically used to protect or shape something, or to absorb liquid.

Usage examples:

A pad of cotton wool

verb

Fill or cover (something) with soft material in order to protect it or its contents, make it more comfortable, or give it a particular shape.

Usage examples:

The boxing gloves are padded with impact-resistant foam rubber

noun

The soft dull sound of steady steps.

Usage examples:

He heard the pad of feet

verb

Steal (things of little value).

Usage examples:

She produced the handful of coins she had managed to pilfer

verb

To steal things of little value or in small amounts

Usage examples:

[ i/t ] neighborhood kids were pilfering (candy) from the corner store.

verb

To steal things that are not worth much money, especially from the place where you work

Usage examples:

He was caught pilfering stationery more than once., they were charged with conspiracy to pilfer $60…

verb

(of a person or animal) move about restlessly and stealthily, especially in search of prey.

Usage examples:

Lions prowling in the bush

noun

An act of prowling.

Usage examples:

I met her once on one of my off-duty bookshop prowls

verb

To move around an area quietly and secretly, as when hunting

Usage examples:

[ t ] at night, scorpions prowl the desert for insects., [ i ] there have been reports of a man pro…

verb

Steal (something).

Usage examples:

He must have managed to purloin a copy of the key

verb

Act in a cautious or non-committal way.

Usage examples:

I realized i could no longer pussyfoot around

verb

To be careful about expressing an opinion or taking action, esp. because you might hurt someone’s feelings

Usage examples:

Quit pussyfooting around and tell me what you really think.

phrasal verb

To borrow, steal, or take something that does not belong to you

Usage examples:

The dog ran off with my shoe.

verb

Steal goods from a shop while pretending to be a customer.

Usage examples:

He was spotted shoplifting at the supermarket near his home

verb

Walk in a furtive, unobtrusive, or timid manner, especially sideways or obliquely.

Usage examples:

I sidled up to her

noun

An act or instance of sidling somewhere.

Usage examples:

A sidle into the hallway

verb

Move smoothly along a surface while maintaining continuous contact with it.

Usage examples:

She slid down the bank into the water

noun

A structure with a smooth sloping surface for children to slide down.

Usage examples:

Anna played on the slide

verb

Move smoothly along a surface

verb

Move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner.

Usage examples:

The fox came slinking through the bracken

noun

A slinking movement or walk.

Usage examples:

She moved with a sensuous slink

verb

To walk or leave quietly, esp. because you do not want to be noticed or are ashamed of something

Usage examples:

I was so embarrassed that i tried to slink away.

verb

Lose one's footing and slide unintentionally for a short distance.

Usage examples:

I slipped over on the ice

noun

An act of sliding unintentionally for a short distance.

Usage examples:

A single slip could send them plummeting down the mountainside

noun

A small piece of paper, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.

Usage examples:

His monthly salary slip

verb

Move smoothly over a surface with a twisting or oscillating motion.

Usage examples:

I spied a baby adder slithering away

noun

A slithering movement.

Usage examples:

A snake-like slither across the grass

verb

To move by twisting or sliding

Usage examples:

A long snake slithered toward them.

noun

A surface of which one end or side is at a higher level than another; a rising or falling surface.

Usage examples:

He slithered helplessly down the slope

verb

(of a surface or line) be inclined from a horizontal or vertical line; slant up or down.

Usage examples:

The garden sloped down to a stream

verb

Move or go in a furtive or stealthy way.

Usage examples:

I sneaked out by the back exit

noun

(especially in children's use) someone who informs an adult or person in authority of a companion's misdeeds; a telltale.

Usage examples:

Ethel was the form sneak and goody-goody

adjective

Short for sneaker.

verb

Lay hold of (something) with one's hands; reach for and hold.

Usage examples:

Mrs morgan took another biscuit

noun

A scene or sequence of sound or vision photographed or recorded continuously at one time.

Usage examples:

He completed a particularly difficult scene in two takes

verb

Get into one's hands

verb

Be a thief; steal something.

Usage examples:

They began thieving again

verb

Walk quietly and carefully with one's heels raised and one's weight on the balls of the feet.

Usage examples:

Liz tiptoed out of the room

verb

To walk with your heels raised off the ground

Usage examples:

She tiptoed out of the room so she wouldn’t wake him., he had to stand on his tiptoes to reach the …

verb

Disappear suddenly and completely.

Usage examples:

Moira vanished without trace

verb

Become invisible or unnoticeable

verb

To disappear or stop existing, esp. suddenly

Usage examples:

Her smile vanished.