STEAL meaning: 1. to take something without the permission or knowledge of the owner and keep it: 2. to do…. Learn more.

steal, pilfer, filch, purloin mean to take from another without right or without detection. steal may apply to any surreptitious taking of something and differs from the other terms by commonly …

Steal definition: to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force.. See examples of STEAL used in a sentence.

Steal is the most general: stole a car; steals research from colleagues. To purloin is to make off with something, often in a breach of trust: purloined the key to his cousin's safe-deposit box.

If you steal something from someone, you take it away from them without their permission and without intending to return it. He was accused of stealing a small boy's bicycle. [VERB noun] …

Oct 24, 2025 · steal (third-person singular simple present steals, present participle stealing, simple past stole, past participle stolen or (nonstandard, colloquial) stole) (transitive) To take …

steal (stēl), v., stole, sto•len, steal•ing, n. v.t. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch. to appropriate …