steal
1. an advantageous purchase
- she got a bargain at the auction
- the stock was a real buy at that price
• Syn:
bargain, buy
• Derivationally related forms:
buy (for: buy), bargain (for: bargain)
• Hypernyms:
purchase
• Hyponyms:
song, travel bargain
2. 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)
• Hypernyms:
baseball, baseball game
1. take without the owner's consent (Freq. 23)
- Someone stole my wallet on the train
- This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation
• Derivationally related forms:
stealer, stealing
• Hypernyms:
take
• Hyponyms:
pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract,
snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble,
lift, rustle, shoplift, pirate, plagiarize, plagiarise,
pocket, bag, embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate,
malversate, rob, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off,
glom, walk off, hustle, pluck, roll, loot,
plunder, burglarize, burglarise, burgle, heist
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something from somebody
- They steal the money
2. move stealthily (Freq. 4)
- The ship slipped away in the darkness
• Syn:
slip
• See Also:
slip away (for: slip), steal away
• Derivationally related forms:
slip (for: slip), stealing
• Hypernyms:
move
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
3. steal a base (Freq. 3)
• Topics:
baseball, baseball game
• Hypernyms:
gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway,
get ahead, gain ground
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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