Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To take (something) by theft or commit theft.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be a thief; practise theft; steal; prey.
- To take by theft; steal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To practice theft; to steal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive : To commit
theft .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take by theft
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Disdain for people who do not educate their children and send them to the streets to beg and thieve is understandable.
Michele Langevine Leiby: Vichy Revisited: Sarkozy Versus the Gypsies Michele Langevine Leiby 2010
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Disdain for people who do not educate their children and send them to the streets to beg and thieve is understandable.
Michele Langevine Leiby: Vichy Revisited: Sarkozy Versus the Gypsies Michele Langevine Leiby 2010
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Disdain for people who do not educate their children and send them to the streets to beg and thieve is understandable.
Michele Langevine Leiby: Vichy Revisited: Sarkozy Versus the Gypsies Michele Langevine Leiby 2010
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Disdain for people who do not educate their children and send them to the streets to beg and thieve is understandable.
Michele Langevine Leiby: Vichy Revisited: Sarkozy Versus the Gypsies Michele Langevine Leiby 2010
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Disdain for people who do not educate their children and send them to the streets to beg and thieve is understandable.
Michele Langevine Leiby: Vichy Revisited: Sarkozy Versus the Gypsies Michele Langevine Leiby 2010
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And its name sounds like a bizarre slang version of the word "thieve" (A Pheve)?
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They pay a salary to these women who sit and mess around with other people's lives and thieve all day long.
Fret Not 2009
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He is a thieve when it come to the American people.
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If gangs thieve from and threaten repeatedly a small number of traders, again you keep the gangs happy, and tell the traders to book it as an insurance claim.
How “Police Performance” Fraud Works. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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I think claustrophobic inspector hit it spot on about being dressed in his best trackies, shitty old jumper and probably the ebst lizzie duke rings he could muster or thieve.
Another satisfied “customer” walks away laughing. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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