steal

Plural: steals

Noun

an advantageous purchase
a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
The act of stealing.
A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.
A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
A stolen base.
Scoring in an end without the hammer.
A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

Verb

Verb Forms: stole, staw, stolen, stealing, steals

To take something belonging to another without right or permission.
take without the owner's consent
move stealthily
steal a base
To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
To acquire at a low price.
To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
To move silently or secretly.
To convey (something) clandestinely.
To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
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.
To dispossess
To borrow for a short moment.
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.

Examples

At this price, this car is a steal.
Can I steal your pen?
He got that car for two grand under book? Wow, he stole that thing!
He got that thing for just twenty bucks? What a steal!
He stole across the room, trying not to wake her.
He stole glances at the pretty woman across the street.
He stole the car for two thousand less than its book value.
She managed to steal a crucial triple word score right out from under his nose.
The problem is the two bicycles stolen from us.
They stole all my money (from me).
They stole my idea for a biodegradable, disposable garbage de-odorizer.
Three irreplaceable paintings were stolen from the gallery.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan, from Proto-West Germanic *stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelaną.
Compare West Frisian stelle, Low German stehlen, Dutch stelen, German stehlen, Danish stjæle, Swedish stjäla, Norwegian Bokmål stjele, Norwegian Nynorsk stela, Sanskrit स्तेय (steya); see below for more.
For the meaning development compare with Russian красть (krastʹ, “to steal”) and Russian кра́сться (krástʹsja, “to stalk, to prowl, to slink”).
etymology notes
Proposed etymologies beyond Germanic are numerous and include
* Proto-Indo-European *ster-: compare Welsh herw (“theft, raid”), Ancient Greek στερέω (steréō, “to deprive of”)
* Proto-Indo-European *stel(H)- (“to stretch”): compare Albanian pë/mbështjell (“I confuse, mess up, mix, wrap up”), Old Church Slavonic стєлѭ (steljǫ, “I spread out (bed, roof)”), Ancient Greek τηλία (tēlía, “playing table”)
* Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (“to sneak”): compare Sanskrit त्सरति (tsárati, “creep, sneak up on”) and other forms under Pokorny 5. *sel- "schleichen, kriechen"

Synonyms

bargain, buy, slip, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, commandeer, confiscate, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, gilravage, half-inch, heave, heist, jack, kidnap, kipe, knock off, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, mooch, moonlight requisition, nick, nip, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, relieve, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, sneak, sniggle, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with

Antonyms

bestow, buy, donate, earn, grant, purchase, receive, return, rip-off

Scrabble Score: 5

steal: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
steal: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
steal: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

steal: valid Words With Friends Word