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stealing - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | stealing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theft |
| Synonyms: | burglary, embezzlement, larceny, piracy, robbery, shoplifting |
| Main Entry: | steal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take something without permission |
| Synonyms: | abduct, appropriate, blackmail, cheat, cozen, defraud, despoil, divert, embezzle, heist, hold up, keep, kidnap, lift*, loot, misappropriate, peculate, pilfer, pillage, pinch*, pirate, plagiarize, plunder, poach, purloin, ransack, remove, rifle, rip off*, sack*, shoplift, snitch*, strip, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, withdraw, burglarize, carry off, hold for ransom, housebreak*, make off with, run off with, spirit away*, stick up*, take possession of, walk off with |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | steal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sneak around |
| Synonyms: | creep, flit, glide, insinuate, lurk, skulk, slide, slink, slip, snake, tiptoe, go stealthily, pass quietly |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
stealing; theft, thievery, latrociny, direption; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism; latrocinium., spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage; rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid; blackmail., piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of marque., filibustering, filibusterism; burglary; housebreaking; badger game., robbery, hold-up [U.S.]., peculation, embezzlement; fraud [more]; larceny, petty larceny, shoplifting., thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves., Black Hand [U.S.].
-verbs
steal, thieve, rob, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize., convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk off with, run off with; run away with; spirit away, seize (lay violent hands on) [more]., plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster., swindle, peculate, embezzle; sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece; defraud [more]; obtain under false pretenses; live by one's wits., rob Peterto pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul; set a thief to catch a thief., disregard the distinction between meum and tuum., [receive stolen goods] fence, launder, launder money.
-adjectives
thieving; thievish, light-fingered; furacious, furtive; piratical; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; raptorial (rapacious) [more]., stolen
-phrases
sic vos non vobis.
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| Antonyms: | restitution |
| Main Entry: | depredation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devastation, destruction |
| Synonyms: | burglary, crime, desecration, desolation, pillage, plunder, rapine, robbery, stealing, theft, despoiling, laying waste, marauding, ransacking, ravaging, sacking, spoliation, wasting |
| Antonyms: | boon, construction, goodness, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicanery, corruption, craft, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam*, fraud, graft, guile, hanky-panky*, hocus-pocus*, infamy, infidelity, mendacity, racket, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, chicane, criminality, crookedness, fourberie, fraudulence, improbity, insidiousness, perfidiousness, perfidy, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, frankness, honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, openness, scrupulousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blackmail; cheating |
| Synonyms: | arm, badger, bite, coercion, compulsion, demand, force, fraud, oppression, payoff, payola*, pressure, protection, racket, rapacity, shake, shakedown*, squeeze, stealing, swindle, theft, exaction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swindle |
| Synonyms: | cheating, con game*, confidence game, deceit, dirty pool*, double-dealing*, extortion, fix, fraud, racket*, rip-off*, scam, shell game*, stealing, sting, trickery, shady deal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | larceny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theft |
| Synonyms: | burglary, crime, lift, pinch, robbery, steal, stealing, thievery, thieving, touch*, misappropriation, pilfering, purloining |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | piracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | robbery |
| Synonyms: | infringement, plagiarism, rapine, stealing, theft, bootlegging, buccaneering, commandeering, copying, freebooting, hijacking, marauding, pirating, swashbuckling |
| Main Entry: | plagiarism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | copying of another's written work |
| Synonyms: | appropriation, borrowing, counterfeiting, fraud, infringement, piracy, stealing, theft, cribbing, falsification, lifting, literary theft |
| Antonyms: | original, originality |
| Main Entry: | rip-off |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick; robbery |
| Synonyms: | cheat, con*, exploitation, fraud, gyp*, larceny, lift*, pinch*, racket*, steal, stealing, swindle, theft, thievery, thieving, purloining |
| Antonyms: | gift, giving, offering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stickup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | holdup |
| Synonyms: | burglary, crime, robbery, stealing, theft, armed robbery, mugging |
| Main Entry: | smuggling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bootlegging |
| Synonyms: | stealing, rum-running*, running goods, trafficking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thievery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theft |
| Synonyms: | burglary, larceny, robbery, stealing, filching, pilfering, thievishness |
| Main Entry: | usury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lending money at a high interest rate |
| Synonyms: | exploitation, stealing |
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | plunder |
| Synonyms: | stealing, theft, thievery, thieving, marauding |
| Main Entry: | abstract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take away from |
| Synonyms: | detach, disconnect, disengage, dissociate, extract, isolate, part, remove, separate, steal, withdraw, take out, uncouple |
| Antonyms: | add, combine, fill, insert, introduce, unite |
| Main Entry: | bleed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extort |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, confiscate, deplete, drain, exhaust, extract, fleece, impoverish, leech*, milk*, mulct, overcharge, rook*, sap*, skin*, squeeze*, steal, stick*, strong-arm, pauperize, put the screws to |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | borrow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adopt from another source; appropriate |
| Synonyms: | acquire, adopt, assume, copy, filch, imitate, make one's own, obtain, pilfer, pirate, plagiarize, simulate, steal, take, use, usurp |
| Antonyms: | give, return |
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