Definitions for thieves

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Spelling: [theef]
IPA: /θif/

Thieves is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in thieves (eehistv).

Definitions for thieves

noun

  1. a person who steals, especially secretly or without open force; one guilty of theft or larceny.

verb (used with object)

  1. to take by theft; steal.

verb (used without object)

  1. to act as a thief; commit theft; steal.

Origin of thieves

before 900; Middle English; Old English thēof; cognate with Dutch dief, German Dieb, Old Norse thjōfr, Gothic thiufs

Examples for thieves

He also is the chief of the police force and catches the thieves.

He suspects that he saw, somehow, what the thieves saw, tapping into their perception of the back of the house.

Their thieves are the most daring and their agents the most cunning.

Typically most women carry their concealed firearms in their purses, the main target of thieves.

They are thieves—they will steal from you before your very face, so devoid are they of all shame.

I do not hold diplomatic relations with thieves and vagabonds.

Last month I turned and faced their surreptitious security: “Catch any thieves today?”

Megan Boken was one of many slain by thieves going ‘Apple picking.’

He would not have been embarrassed if they had been the Forty thieves.

Indeed, a condition of rampant, endemic political corruption is known as a “kleptocracy”—literally, “rule by thieves.”

Word Value for thieves
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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