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Steal

verb

(past stole; past part. stolen; pres. part. stealing)

Take without the owner's consent. "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

Move stealthily. Synonym: slip.

Steal a base.

noun

An advantageous purchase. Synonyms: bargain, buy. "The stock was a real buy at that price"

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).

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"Steal" Quotes from Famous Books

... sick girl's, which enveloped her from head to feet. Pretty good disguise—thought Eleanor to herself. Mr. Carlisle would not find her out in this. But there was no danger of his seeing her. She was all ready to steal out; when she suddenly recollected that she might be missed, and the old people in terror make a hue and cry after her. That would not do. She stripped off the bonnet again ...

— The Old Helmet, Volume I • Susan Warner

... marshes all about. A little later, for I was a slow learner, I began to practise the same method with the sense of smell, and still later with the sense of taste. I said to myself, "I will no longer permit the avid and eager eye to steal away my whole attention. I will learn to enjoy more completely all the ...

— Great Possessions • David Grayson

... in touch with Government officers who were experimenting with a wonderfully designed submarine. It happened that Rob and his friends were enabled to assist Uncle Sam's agents in defeating the plans of foreign spies who tried to steal the design of the new invention. In the pages of The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam are recorded the adventures that accompanied their service, as well as mention of the reward following ...

— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson

... adopted, and each of the boys, crouching low and stealthily making his way among the trees and through the brush, tried to steal upon the bird, which still ...

— Scouting with Daniel Boone • Everett T. Tomlinson

... make me happy, my dear Madam, if you were more corresponding, yet I must not reproach your silence, nor wish it were less; for all your moments are so dedicated to goodness, and to unwearied acts of benevolence, that you must steal from charity, or purloin from the repose you want, any that you bestow on me. Do not I know, too, alas! how indifferent your health is! You sacrifice that to your duties: but can a friend, who esteems you so highly as I do, be so selfish as to desire to cost you half an hour's headache! ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole

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