| 单词 | steal |
| 释义 | steal (once / 102 pages) vn To steal is take something that isn't yours: thieves steal. But a bargain that's so good it's almost like you're getting away with robbery is also called a steal. Stealing is what thieves do: taking things from other people. A bank robber steals money. A mugger steals purses and wallets. People also use steal in other ways. If someone wastes your time, you might say they're stealing your time. A store having a sale might say, "Our prices are a steal!" In baseball, a runner can steal a base. When you see steal, think "take." WORD FAMILYsteal: stealer, stealing, steals, stolen+/stealer: stealers/stealing: stealings USAGE EXAMPLESHe finished with 11 assists, six rebounds, two steals and just one turnover. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) A little more than an hour later an officer spotted the stolen car, called for backup, and began pursuing the suspects. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) “They didn’t just steal data; they weaponized it,” he said of Russia, also on the ABC program. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1v take without the owner's consent Someone stole my wallet on the train This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation Hypo|Hyper abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe make off with belongings of others lift, rustletake illegally shopliftsteal in a store piratecopy illegally; of published material lift, plagiarise, plagiarizetake without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property bag, pockettake unlawfully defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculateappropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use robtake something away by force or without the consent of the owner cop, glom, hook, knock off, snitch, thievetake by theft walk offtake without permission hustle, pluck, rollsell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity loot, plundertake illegally; of intellectual property burglarise, burglarize, burgle, heistcommit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling hold up, stick uprob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat cribtake unauthorized (intellectual material) fiddlecommit fraud and steal from one's employer pickpilfer or rob take take by force 2v move stealthily Syn|Hyper slip move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 3v steal a base Hyper advance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win obtain advantages, such as points, etc. 4n an advantageous purchase Syn|Hypo|Hyper bargain, buy song a very small sum travel bargaina bargain rate for travellers on commercial routes (usually air routes) purchase something acquired by purchase 5n 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) Hyper 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 |
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