1. Take without the owner's consent
   "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation" 
2. Move stealthily
   - slip 
3. Steal a base

1. An advantageous purchase
   - bargain, buy, snip [Brit] 
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)

Sounds like: steel

Derived forms: stolen, stole, steals, stealing

See also: steal away, stealer, stealing

Type of: advance, baseball, baseball game, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, move, pull ahead, purchase, take, win

Encyclopedia: Steal

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