steal
Noun
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An advantageous purchase (synset 113274650)
"she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price"is a type of: purchase - something acquired by purchasesubtypes:
- song - a very small sum
- travel bargain - a bargain rate for travellers on commercial routes (usually air routes)
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A stolen base;
An instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch) (synset 100726403)is a type of: ball, baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
Verb
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Take without the owner's consent (synset 202326737)
"Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"is a type of: take - take by forcesubtypes:
- abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe - make off with belongings of others
- lift, rustle - take illegally
- shoplift - steal in a store
- pirate - copy illegally; of published material
- lift, plagiarise, plagiarize - take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- bag, pocket - take unlawfully
- defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate - appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
- rob - take something away by force or without the consent of the owner
- cop, glom, hook, knock off, snitch, thieve - take by theft
- walk off - take without permission
- hustle, pluck, roll - sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- loot, plunder - take illegally; of intellectual property
- burglarise, burglarize, burgle, heist - commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
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Move stealthily (synset 201892288)
"The ship slipped away in the darkness"is a type of: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motionsame as: slip
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Steal a base (synset 201113883)
referred to in: ball, baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runsis a type of: advance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win - obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
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