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Stealing (root: steal)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Stealing has 2 senses
- stealing(n = noun.act) larceny, theft, thievery, thieving - the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" has particulars: breach of trust with fraudulent intent, defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation, pilferage, shoplifting, shrinkage, robbery, biopiracy, grand larceny, grand theft, petit larceny, petty, petty larceny, skimming, rustling
- stealing(n = noun.act) stealth - avoiding detection by moving carefully; Array is a kind of concealing, concealment, hiding
is a kind of felony
Derived form verb steal1
Derived form verb steal2
CIDE DICTIONARY
Stealing, n.
- The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. [1913 Webster]
- That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
Stealing
abstraction, all fours, annexation, appropriation, blackmail, boodle, boosting, booty, burglary, conversion, conveyance, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, doggo, embezzlement, filching, fraud, furtive, graft, gumshoeing, haul, hidden out, hot goods, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings, larceny, liberation, lift, lifting, loot, lurking, nightwalking, on tiptoe, padding, peculation, perks, perquisite, pickings, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinching, piracy, pirating, plagiarism, plagiarizing, plunder, poaching, pork barrel, prize, prowling, public till, public trough, purloining, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, pussyfooting, robbery, robbing, scrabble, scramble, scrounging, shoplifting, sidling, skulking, slinking, snaking, snatching, sneak thievery, sneaking, snitching, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, steal, stealage, stealings, stealthy, stolen goods, surreptitious, swag, swindle, swiping, take, theft, thievery, thieving, till, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, touch, under cover, waiting concealed, wormingROGET THESAURUS
Stealing
Acquisition
N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.Stealing
N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.
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