Word Meanings - PILFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PILFER)

• Steal
• Filch
• pilfer
• purloin
• swindle
• take by theft
• peculate
• embezzle
• smuggle

Related words: (words related to PILFER)

• SMUGGLER
  1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
• PILFERY
  Petty theft. Sir T. North.
• EMBEZZLE
  1. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust. 2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• STEALTH
  1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to
• PURLOINER
  One who purloins. Swift.
• PURLOIN
  To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden. (more info) pur, por, pour, for + loin
• STEALTHLIKE
  Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
• SWINDLERY
  Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.
• PILFERING
  Thieving in a small way. Shak. -- n.
• STEALTHFUL
  Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n.
• FILCHER
  One who filches; a thief.
• PILFERER
  One who pilfers; a petty thief.
• PILFER
  To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft. (more info) Etym:
• STEALER
  The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. (more info) 1. One who steals; a thief.
• SMUGGLE
  smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, 1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by
• STEALTHINESS
  The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.
• EMBEZZLER
  One who embezzles.
• STEALING
  1. The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. 2. That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
• PERIOSTEAL
  Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
• FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
  Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.
• PAROSTEAL
  Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.
• ECTOSTEAL
  Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.
• OTOSTEAL
  An auditory ossicle. R. Owen.