Word Finder - stolen

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To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.

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Three irreplaceable paintings were stolen from the gallery.

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(of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.

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They stole my idea for a biodegradable, disposable garbage de-odorizer.

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To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

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He stole glances at the pretty woman across the street.

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To acquire at a low price.

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He stole the car for two thousand less than its book value.

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To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.

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To move silently or secretly.

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He stole across the room, trying not to wake her.

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To convey (something) clandestinely.

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To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.

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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.

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To dispossess

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To borrow for a short moment.

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Can I steal your pen?

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That has been stolen.

Those ideas were stolen from me.

Some large bird has stolen it from his palace.

He tossed him a bar of chocolate he'd stolen from the supplies.

But the old man, finally, with much reluctance, agreed to re-figure the amount stolen when Dean began to ask how fre­quently deposits were made and offered to check bank records.

Kris must be livid I've stolen her from him.

He traveled for a day and slid beneath the radars of Qatwal easily, having stolen the codes needed to jam their tracking systems during one of his scuffles with Kisolm.

It was a strawberry sunrise, topped with whipped cream clouds, a perfect sort of day until Dean was awake enough to remember Martha Boyd, lord knows where, escaping the law in a stolen twenty-year-old Buick, with a ditzy ex-junkie for a chauffeur.

I think it's worth publicizing it, especially if the license plate turns out to be stolen and we have nothing.

Anna Pavlovna waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more she began to tell of how at Potsdam the impious Bonaparte had stolen the sword of Frederick the Great.

If this is omitted, things are stolen by the Jan.

It had been stolen, so the police had no way of putting out a call for Nota and his friend unless someone in the neighborhood had sharp eyes.

The Orloff, stolen by a French soldier from the eye of an idol in a Brahmin temple, stolen again from him by a ship's captain, was bought by Prince Orloff for £90,000, and given to the empress Catharine II.

The fact is that I left my little pet in my dressing-room lying asleep upon the table; and you must have stolen in without my knowing it.

The black man, the passenger spotted in the stolen Buick, had been apprehended when he returned to the vehicle to retrieve his overnight satchel.

Her kidskin boots alone were worth more than everything Xander had ever stolen combined.

Thus they have secretly stolen our three rods that they may go unpunished, and have entrenched themselves safely behind these three walls in order to carry on all the rascality and wickedness that we now see."

In those days victims of robberies constantly compounded with felonies and paid blackmail to thieves, promising not to prosecute on the restitution of a portion of the stolen property.

Again, because a hero is said to have stolen or brought fire, we need not regard that hero as the personification of fire, and explain all his myth as a fire-myth.

It will be observed that "forgetfulness of the meaning of words" is made to account for the Greek belief that fire was stolen from the gods.

Lastly, fire is said (owing to this confusion) to have been stolen, and the term which meant the common savage fire-stick is by a process of delusion conceived to represent, not a stick, but a person, Prometheus, who stole fire.

We strolled back to my stolen car and drove away, taking back street to avoid intersection cameras.

He embraces, not her, but an... armless, elderly female cadaver (stolen by Doc from the college mortuary )!

Only one MS. of the history is known; it was stolen by a Turkish soldier from the library at Buda during the reign of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and taken to Constantinople, where it was bought by a Christian and eventually reached the 'imperial library at Vienna.

The acquaintance of many criminals which he made in prison he turned to account after his release by setting up as a receiver of stolen goods.

Wild shrewdly realized that it was safer, and in most cases more profitable, to dispose of such property by returning it to its legitimate owners than to sell it, with the attendant risks, in the open market, and he thus built up an immense business, posing as a recoverer of stolen goods, the thieves receiving a commission on the price paid for recovery.

A special act of parliament was passed by which receivers of stolen property were made accessories to the theft, but Wild's professed "lost property office" had little difficulty in evading the new law, and became so prosperous that two branch offices were opened.

Such stolen property as could not be returned to the owners with profit was taken abroad in a sloop purchased for this work.

In his later years he made some attempts to maintain the public peace, and he distinguished himself by the vigour with which he punished robber barons in Thuringia; he also won back some of the crown lands and dues which had been stolen during the interregnum.

Another, of the Eloquent Peasant whose ass had been stolen, was only a framework to the rhetoric of endless petitions.

Three hundred English horsemen appear to have stolen round Randolph's flank unseen by him, and Bruce is said to have warned him that " a rose had fallen from his chaplet."

In January 1782 it was performed in the Court and National Theatre of Mannheim, Schiller himself having stolen secretly away from Stuttgart in order to be present.

At the school of Libanius the sophist he gave early indications of his mental powers, and would have been the successor of his heathen master, had he not been stolen away, to use the expression of his teacher, to a life of piety (like Augustine, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Theodoret) by the influence of his pious mother Anthusa.

The same is to be said of the soldiers placed to guard the tomb, and of the story that they had been bribed to say that the sacred body had been stolen while they slept.

The leaden tablets of the oracle contain no certain example of a response, though there are many questions, varying from matters of public policy or private enterprise to inquiries after stolen goods.

In 1870, the year in which he was very seriously injured in a railway accident, he was elected professor of physics at Owens 1 On the 6th of November 1878 his body was stolen from St Mark's churchyard in New York, but recovered in 1881 upon the payment of $20,000, and buried in the crypt of the cathedral in Garden City.

The list of his works of fiction includes The Stolen Bacillus and other Stories (1895), The Wonderful Visit (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Plattner Story and Others (1897), When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), The First Men in the Moon (1901), The Food of the Gods (1904), In the Days of the Comet (1906), The War in the Air (1908), Anne Veronica (1909), The History of Mr Polly (191 0).

On Christmas day Livingstone lost his four goats, a loss which he felt very keenly, and the medicine chest was stolen in January 1867.

In 1817 further trouble arose with the Kaffirs, the immediate cause of quarrel being an attempt by the colonial authorities to enforce the restitution of some stolen cattle.

Boudin the elder now established himself as stationer and frame-maker; this time in the greater seaport town of Havre; and Eugene helped in the little business, and, in stolen hours, produced certain drawings.

A quarrel had arisen about the division of a herd of cattle which the four had stolen.

The filched liberties of the crown and the people should be restored, and the nation redeemed from the oligarchies which had stolen from both.

His best songs had stolen into print; a collection was not published till 1809, under the title of Amusements of Leisure Hours.

In another Australian legend fire was stolen by the hawk from the bandicoot, and given to men.

Among the Ahts, in North America,' fire was stolen by animals from the cuttle-fish.

Among the Aryans of India, Soma is stolen by birds, as water is among the Thlinkeets, and mead in the Edda.

Thus then, according to the philologists, arose the myth that fire was stolen, a myth which, we presume, would not otherwise have occurred to Greeks.

We have shown that Thlinkeets, Ahts, Andaman Islanders, Australians, Maoris, South Sea Islanders, Cahrocs and others all believe fire was originally stolen.

What, then, is the origin of the widely-diffused myth that fire was stolen?

While I expressed my disappointment, he reminded me our culprit had a notorious habit of frequently changing stolen plates.

In spite of Martha's pending departure, they gloried in the early summer sunshine, rocking contentedly in a few stolen minutes of relaxation.