Definition of Steal

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Definition of Steal

Steal

A handle; a stale, or stele.

To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.

To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.

To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.

To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.

To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.

To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.

To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.

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Steal Quotations

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Pablo Picasso

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
Erma Bombeck

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
William Shakespeare

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Wilson Mizner

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
David Ogilvy

Steal Translations

steal in Afrikaans is steel
steal in Dutch is sluipen
steal in Finnish is varastaa
steal in German is stehlen
steal in Italian is sotrarre, rubare
steal in Latin is abigo, latrocinor, corripio
steal in Norwegian is stjele
steal in Portuguese is roube
steal in Spanish is hurtar, robar, sonsacar

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