purloin
v.
steal, pilfer, filch; take without permission, appropriate
purloin
Verb
1. make off with belongings of others
(synonym) pilfer, cabbage, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
(hypernym) steal
Purloin
(v. t.)
To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch.
(v. i.)
To practice theft; to steal.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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purloin
Synonyms and related words:
abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, boost, borrow, cabbage, cop, crib, defraud, embezzle, extort, filch, hook, lift, make off with, nip, palm, pilfer, pinch, poach, run away with, rustle, scrounge, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, walk off with
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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