Definitions for stole

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stole stole

Spelling: [stohl]

IPA: /stoʊl/

Stole 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 71 anagrams from letters in stole (elost).

Definitions for stole

noun

1. an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below. Compare tippet (def 2).
2. a woman's shoulder scarf of fur, marabou, silk, or other material. Compare tippet (def 1).
3. a long robe, especially one worn by the matrons of ancient Rome.
4. Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
5. Informal. the thing stolen; booty.
6. Informal. something acquired at a cost far below its real value; bargain:
7. Baseball. the act of advancing a base by stealing.

verb

1. simple past tense of steal.

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 stole

before 950; Middle English, Old English Latin stola Greek stolḗ clothing, robe; akin to Greek stéllein to array, Old English stellan to place, put

Examples for stole

I have never taken anything that did not belong to me, and yet they stole all I had.

“He did not trust his slaves and regularly complained that they shirked work, stole supplies, and broke tools,” writes Larson.

Judge Drioux intimated Picasso he was part of a larger gang of criminals who stole the Mona Lisa.

No; I stole one of the ship's boats, and came for you without leave.

The problem now is that they came back to the fight with sophisticated weapons, weapons they stole from the Americans.

I beg, I beseech, I implore you, help me and show me the man that stole it.

McCain said those were U.S. weapons that ISIS stole during its plundering of Mosul.

Night fell, and Harriet stole forth to the place designated.

Yes, they stole him from old Walters; made him believe the horse was no good.

Yep, the song the Whos sing in How the Grinch stole Christmas.