Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Stealing   /stˈilɪŋ/   Listen
Stealing

noun
1.
The act of taking something from someone unlawfully.  Synonyms: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving.
2.
Avoiding detection by moving carefully.  Synonym: stealth.


Steal

verb
(past stole; past part. stolen; pres. part. stealing)
1.
Take without the owner's consent.  "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"
2.
Move stealthily.  Synonym: slip.
3.
Steal a base.



Related searches:
steal away
Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Steal-Holstein
stealer


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Stealing" Quotes from Famous Books



... cracked on the head, Then to jail he was carried and taken for dead. The constable then for the Father did send, For he thought that McCarthy was quite near his end; He confessed to the priest, did this penitent youth, About the pig stealing he told the ...
— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin
... was all made up. I expect we'd all be put in jail, and it would be jolly awkward for Dick and me when we got back to school. I think I see the Old Man's face when we explained that we couldn't come because we were in an Australian prison in the year 1879 for stealing diamonds. I ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton
... headquarters at Fourainville, where he threw himself half-dressed on his truckle bed, and although the night was bitterly cold, with no covering but his cloak. He was startled from his slumber before the dawn by a movement of lights in the enemy's camp, and he sprang to his feet supposing that the duke was stealing a march upon him despite all his precautions. The alarm proved to be a false one, but Henry lost no time in ordering his battle. His cavalry he divided in seven troops or squadrons. The first, forming the left wing, was a body of three hundred under Marshal d'Aumont, supported by two regiments ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... excelled Dan, for he had inherited a head for figures, and the notion of stealing information from one glimpse of the sullen Bank sun appealed to all his keen wits. For other sea-matters his age handicapped him. As Disko said, he should have begun when he was ten. Dan could bait up trawl or lay his hand on any rope in the dark; and at a pinch, when Uncle Salters had a gurry-score ...
— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling
... "He has been stealing tinware," commented one of them. "While he was about it he might as well have taken silver or something ...
— Pixy's Holiday Journey • George Lang


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com