Definitions for steal

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Spelling: [steel]

IPA: /stil/

Steal is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in steal (aelst).

Definitions for steal

noun

1. Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
2. Informal. the thing stolen; booty.
3. Informal. something acquired at a cost far below its real value; bargain:
4. Baseball. the act of advancing a base by stealing.

Idioms

1. steal someone's thunder, to appropriate or use another's idea, plan, words, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force:
2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
3. to take, get, or win insidiously, surreptitiously, subtly, or by chance:
4. to move, bring, convey, or put secretly or quietly; smuggle (usually followed by away, from, in, into, etc.):
5. Baseball. (of a base runner) to gain (a base) without the help of a walk or batted ball, as by running to it during the delivery of a pitch.
6. Games. to gain (a point, advantage, etc.) by strategy, chance, or luck.
7. to gain or seize more than one's share of attention in, as by giving a superior performance:

verb (used without object)

1. to commit or practice theft.
2. to move, go, or come secretly, quietly, or unobserved:
3. to pass, happen, etc., imperceptibly, gently, or gradually:
4. Baseball. (of a base runner) to advance a base without the help of a walk or batted ball.

Origin of steal

before 900; 1860-65 for def 5; Middle English stelen, Old English stelan; cognate with German stehlen, Old Norse stela, Gothic stilan

Examples for steal

And I am able to steal back what was stolen from me as a child.

In “steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”

If I cannot find one, I will earn, beg or steal the money to get them printed.

I steal into his sleep, and play my part among the figures of his dreams.

Sleep did not steal upon the sisters at one and the same time.

There are hundreds of them who steal because they don't get enough to eat.

Murderers tweet in Mexico; a history of Kansas City and did Picasso try to steal the Mona Lisa?

Watch your back Liam Neeson, here comes Kevin Costner to steal your older-leading-man thunder!

When they steal things, they want to get all the bonus points.

It never occurred to her that the girl might have been tempted to steal—and had not resisted the temptation.