| Main Entry: | scrounge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beg, forage for |
Synonyms: |
bum, freeload, hunt, sponge, wheedle |
Antonyms: |
give, offer |
| Main Entry: | beg |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | seek charity |
Synonyms: |
ask alms, benefit, bite*, brace, bum*, burn*, buzz*, cadge, call on, call upon, chisel, clamor for, dime up, ding, freeload, hit up, hustle, knock, live hand to mouth, mendicate, mooch, nick, nickel up, panhandle, pass the hat, put the bite on, put the touch on, score*, scrounge, solicit charity, sponge on, sponge, tap, touch, want |
Antonyms: |
give |
| Main Entry: | borrow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take for temporary use |
Synonyms: |
accept loan of, acquire, beg, bite, bum, cadge, chisel, give a note for, hire, hit up, lift, mooch, negotiate, obtain, pawn, pledge, raise money, rent, run into debt, scrounge, see one's uncle, soak, sponge, take on loan, tap, touch, use temporarily |
Antonyms: |
give, lend, pay, return |
| Main Entry: | filch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal |
Synonyms: |
cop, crib*, embezzle, hustle*, lift*, misappropriate, pilfer, pinch*, purloin, rip off, rob, scrounge, sneak, snipe, snitch, swipe, take, thieve, walk off with |
Antonyms: |
contribute, give |
| Main Entry: | forage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | search madly for |
Synonyms: |
beat, cast about, comb, explore, fine-tooth-comb, grub, hunt, pilfer, plunder, raid, rake, ransack, ravage, rummage, scour, scrounge, seek |
| Main Entry: | mooch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cadge |
Synonyms: |
beg, borrow, bum*, bumoff, freeload, leach off, scrounge, sponge |
| Main Entry: | panhandle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beg |
Synonyms: |
ask alms, bum*, cadge, freeload, hit up, hold out one's hand, hustle, live hand to mouth, mooch, pass the hat, scrounge, solicit charity, sponge |
| Main Entry: | pilfer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal, embezzle |
Synonyms: |
annex, appropriate, borrow, cop, crib*, filch, liberate*, lift*, moonlight, palm, pinch*, pluck, purloin, requisition, rip off, rob, scrounge, snare, snatch, swipe, take, thieve, walk off with |
Antonyms: |
give, receive |
| Main Entry: | rob |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal, deprive |
Synonyms: |
abscond, appropriate, bereave, break into, burglarize, burgle, cheat, con, cop, defalcate, defraud, despoil, disinherit, dispossess, divest, do out of, embezzle, filch, heist, hijack, hold up, hustle, liberate, lift*, loot, lose, mug, oust, peculate, pilfer, pillage, pinch, plunder, promote, purloin, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, roll*, sack, scrounge, snitch, stick up, strip, strong-arm, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, withhold |
Antonyms: |
give, offer |
| Main Entry: | sponge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mooch |
Synonyms: |
beg, bum*, cadge, chisel, freeload, hit up, hustle, live off of, panhandle, scrounge |