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Thief

//θiːf// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who carries out a theft.

    "water-thieves and land-thieves"

  2. 2
    a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it wordnet
  3. 3
    One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.

    "Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye wot what. / If noise ye heare, / Looke all be cleare: / Least drabs doe noie thee, / And theeues destroie thee."

  4. 4
    A waster in the snuff of a candle. obsolete

    "But hear you, my Worthy Brethren: do not you, where you see a thief in the candle, call presently for an extinguisher[…]"

Etymology

From Middle English thef, theef, þef, from Old English þēof, from Proto-West Germanic *þeub, from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz.

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