Word Meanings - THEFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny. Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must

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The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny. Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery. 2. The thing stolen. If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double. Ex. xxii. 4.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THEFT)

• Robbery
• Theft
• larceny
• pillage
• plundering
• depredation
• spoliation
• Steal
• Filch
• pilfer
• purloin
• swindle
• take by theft
• peculate
• embezzle
• smuggle

Related words: (words related to THEFT)

• SMUGGLER
  1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• PILFERY
  Petty theft. Sir T. North.
• EMBEZZLE
  1. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust. 2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• STEALTH
  1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to
• PURLOINER
  One who purloins. Swift.
• PURLOIN
  To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden. (more info) pur, por, pour, for + loin
• STEALTHLIKE
  Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
• ROBBERY
  The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately. Syn. -- Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation;
• SWINDLERY
  Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.
• PILFERING
  Thieving in a small way. Shak. -- n.
• STEALTHFUL
  Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n.
• FILCHER
  One who filches; a thief.
• SPOLIATION
  Injury done to a document. (more info) 1. The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder. Sir G. C. Lewis. 2. Robbery or plunder in
• PILFERER
  One who pilfers; a petty thief.
• PILFER
  To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft. (more info) Etym:
• STEALER
  The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. (more info) 1. One who steals; a thief.
• DEPREDATION
  The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.
• DESPOLIATION
  A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Bailey.
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
• PERIOSTEAL
  Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
• FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
  Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.
• PAROSTEAL
  Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.