英语词汇“steal”的释义、区别辨析及用法例句-英语同义词词典

单词	steal
例句	steal verb 1.•the burglars stole a fax machine:purloin, thieve, take, take for oneself, help oneself to, loot, pilfer, run off with, abscond with, carry off, shoplift \| embezzle, misappropriate \| informal walk off with, rob, swipe, snatch, nab, rip off, lift, “liberate”, “borrow”, filch, pinch, heist \| Brit. informal nick \| formal peculate. 2.•his work was stolen by his tutor:plagiarize, copy, pass off as one's own, pirate, poach, borrow \| informal rip off, lift, pinch, crib \| Brit. informal nick. 3.•he stole a kiss:snatch, sneak, get stealthily/surreptitiously. 4.•he stole out of the room:creep, sneak, slink, slip, slide, glide, tiptoe, sidle, edge.▶noun informal •at $30 it's a steal. See bargain (sense 1 of the noun). WORD LINKSkleptomania a recurrent urge to steal thingsWord Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.WORD NOTE filch The best advertisement for petty thievery is this lovely word, with pilfer a close second; it is not hard to imagine a mildly larcenous character in Dickens named Nick Filch. In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the creepy caretaker at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is Argus Filch, a "squib" who does not have magical powers but tries to teach himself the basics from a correspondence course. — JSConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.
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