Antonyms for steal
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WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. stealnoun

   Antonyms:
   earn, give back

2. stealnoun

   To illegally, or without the owner's permission, take possession of something by surreptitiously taking or carrying it away.

   Antonyms:
   give back, earn

3. stealnoun

   To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

   At this price, this car is a steal.

   Antonyms:
   give back, earn

   Synonyms:
   bargain

4. stealnoun

   To copy copyright-protected work without permission.

   Antonyms:
   earn, give back

5. stealverb

   To acquire at a low price.

   He stole the car for two thousand less than its book value.

   Antonyms:
   give back, earn

6. stealnoun

   Scoring in an end without the hammer.

   Antonyms:
   earn, give back

7. stealverb

   To move silently or secretly.

   He stole across the room, trying not to wake her.

   Antonyms:
   earn, give back

8. stealverb

   Antonyms:
   earn, give back

9. stealverb

   Antonyms:
   give back, earn

10. stealverb

    Synonyms:
    knock off, pocket, thieve, convert, lift, nick, jack, rob, half-inch, flog, confiscate, pinch

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. stealverb

   The central idea of withdrawing makes abstract in common speech a euphemism for appropriate (unlawfully), purloin, steal. In mental processes we discriminate between objects by distinguishing their differences; we separate some one element from all that does not necessarily belong to it, abstract it, and view it alone. We may separate two ideas, and hold both in mind in comparison or contrast; but when we abstract one of them, we drop the other out of thought. The mind is abstracted when it is withdrawn from all other subjects and concentrated upon one, diverted when it is drawn away from what it would or should attend to by some other interest, distracted when the attention is divided among different subjects, so that it can not be given properly to any. The trouble with the distracted person is that he is not abstracted. Compare DISCERN.

   Antonyms:
   add, combine, complete, conjoin, fill up, increase, restore, strengthen, unite

   Synonyms:
   abstract, appropriate, detach, discriminate, distinguish, distract, divert, eliminate, purloin, remove, separate, take away, withdraw

   Preposition:
   The purse may be abstracted from the pocket; the substance from the accidents; a book into a compend.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. steal

   Antonyms:
   rob, plunder, ravage, maraud, back, pillage

   Synonyms:
   filch, pilfer, purloin, swindle, take by theft, peculate, embezzle, smuggle

Matched Categories

1. • Baseball
   • Gain
   • Move
   • Purchase

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 4 votes

1. bargain, buy, stealnoun

   an advantageous purchase

   "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price"

   Synonyms:
   deal, bargain, buy

2. stealverb

   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)

   Synonyms:
   buy, bargain

3. stealverb

   take without the owner's consent

   "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

   Synonyms:
   slip

4. steal, slipverb

   move stealthily

   "The ship slipped away in the darkness"

   Synonyms:
   splay, drop away, fall away, slip one's mind, dislocate, slue, mistake, slip, skid, err, slide, drop off, slew, luxate, sneak

5. stealverb

   steal a base

   Synonyms:
   slip

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1. stealverb

   Synonyms:
   pilfer, filch, peculate, purloin, poach, abstract, rob, defraud, pirate, plunder, crib, pillage, rapine loot, thieve, embezzle, peculate, plagiarize, insinuate, creep furtively, go stealthily, sneak, slink, skulk, ratten

How to use steal in a sentence?

1. Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude":

   Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

2. Michael Corradino:

   It just didn't sit right that somebody associated with January 6 who expressed the viewpoint along' Stop the Steal' is wanting to be a judge of elections.

3. Sospeter Muhongo:

   I have decided to resign to bring a conclusion to this never ending debate so the nation can focus on other important issues for national development, i did not do anything wrong and I did not steal any money. My record speaks for itself, I am incorruptible.

4. Whitney Moore, Jr.:

   We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

5. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro:

   The oil industry is the backbone of the Venezuelan economy, the U.S. empire for a long time ... has intended to sabotage the oil industry and defeat the (Venezuelan) government, in order to steal the oil.

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