Crossword clues for stealing
stealing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steal \Steal\ (st[=e]l), v. t. [imp. Stole (st[=o]l); p. p. Stolen (st[=o]"l'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Stealing.] [OE. stelen, AS. stelan; akin to OFries. stela, D. stelen, OHG. stelan, G. stehlen, Icel. stela, SW. stj["a]la, Dan. sti[ae]le, Goth. stilan.]
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To take, and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
Maugre thy heed, thou must for indigence Or steal, or beg, or borrow, thy dispense.
--Chaucer.The man who stole a goose and gave away the giblets in alms.
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To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
--Spenser.He will steal himself into a man's favor.
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To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
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To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any subject.
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To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, . . . and do not think to steal it.
--Bacon.To steal a march, to march in a covert way; to gain an advantage unobserved; -- formerly followed by of, but now by on or upon, and sometimes by over; as, to steal a march upon one's political rivals.
She yesterday wanted to steal a march of poor Liddy.
--Smollett.Fifty thousand men can not easily steal a march over the sea.
--Walpole.Syn: To filch; pilfer; purloin; thieve.
Stealing \Steal"ing\, n.
The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.
That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
14c., verbal noun from steal (v.). Old English had stælðing "theft."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The action of the verb ''to steal''. 2 (context archaic chiefly in the plural English) That which is stolen; stolen property. vb. (present participle of steal English)
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Usage examples of "stealing".
Giles clucked his tongue as though admonishing a child caught stealing tarts.
They answered that it was the enjoyment of committing adultery, stealing, defrauding and lying.
Seregil agreed, stealing another concerned look at Alec riding stiffly beside him.
He dreaded being sent back to the Tower even more than he dreaded a beating for stealing illegal passage on the Windship, but if he were allowed to remain in the city, would he not merely end up as a drudge, toiling in sunless chambers for the rest of his life, polishing aumbries, bleeding, broken?
A hundred years of moonshining, stealing, gunrunning, gambling, counterfeiting, whoring, bribing, even killing, and eventually drug manufacturing, and not a single arrest.
Tannim, so only Shar saw that Thomas Cadge had crept out of the rear seat and was stealing out of the Mustang on all fours.
Perhaps then, either I had not been placed so adorned at the rock, contrary to their expectation, or, if I had been, that someone had, in my helpless unconsciousness, arrived earlier and simply removed the necklace, stealing it from my chained body.
In the midst of all this gaiety I could not help stealing many a furtive glance towards Callimena.
The entire plan, detailed in memos between the CEO of Life Care, Matthew Darst, and their head tech, to discredit Accu-Read and ruin them, while in the process stealing their technology.
Thitherward then he made, stealing from bush to bush, since he deemed that he needed not be seen of men who might be foes, for at the first sight he had noted the gleam of weapons there.
So sudden and urgent that I was willing to deal with Tony Donuts, who had only recently finished murdering the best counterfeiter in the country and stealing his equipment.
Look, I could go to jail for stealing a significant amount of money from Doub Steel.
All around Lin the duckers and divers of Aspic filled the streets on their way to scrape for money, stealing or begging or selling or sifting through the piles of rubbish which punctuated the street.
Lin the duckers and divers of Aspic filled the streets on their way to scrape for money, stealing or begging or selling or sifting through the piles of rubbish which punctuated the street.
It had been crushed when he fell under the wheels of an emigrant wagon while stealing food.