How to pronounce “steal”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
• (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
• (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
• (transitive, informal, figurative) To acquire at a low price.
• (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
• (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
• (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
• To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
• (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
• (sports, transitive) To dispossess
• (informal, transitive, hyperbolic) To borrow for a short moment.
• (informal, transitive, humorous) To take or retell someone else’s joke; to use a clever phrase or expression from someone else in one's own speaking or writing.
• [Noun]
• The act of stealing.
• (slang, figurative) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.
• (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
• (baseball) A stolen base.
• (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
• (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

Practice Nearby Words

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