Word Meanings - STEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A handle; a stale, or stele. And in his hand a huge poleax did bear. Whose steale was iron-studded but not long. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STEAL)

• Pilfer
• Abstract
• peculate
• filch
• purloin
• smuggle
• cabbage
• steal
• thieve
• Purloin
• Steal
• seize
• plunder

Related words: (words related to STEAL)

• SMUGGLER
  1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• PILFERY
  Petty theft. Sir T. North.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• THIEVE
  To practice theft; to steal. (more info) Etym:
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• 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.
• ABSTRACTITIOUS
  Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb.
• ABSTRACTNESS
  The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
• CABBAGE
  chou cobus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. 1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The
• 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.
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• 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.
• SEIZER
  One who, or that which, seizes.
• ABSTRACTIONIST
  An idealist. Emerson.
• 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.