Hunger compelled the boy to steal money from the cash register.
Source: tatoeba (18160)
Steal
/stiːl/
Synonyms for "steal" (373 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (75)
Noun(16 words)
Verb(26 words)
riprip offabductabscondsabstractappropriateappropriatedappropriatesbagbanditbash and grabbereaveboneboostborrowburglarizeburglarizedburglecarjackedcheat
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Adjective(2 words)
appropriate behaviorappropriate setting
Strong matches (112)
Verb(32 words)
cozencribembezzleembezzledembezzlesfilchfleecefloggafflegilravagehalf-inchheaveheistheistedhijackedinterceptedjackjackedkidnapkipe
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knock offkyperliberateliftliftedlootmake off withmillmisappropriatemisappropriatedmoochmoonlight requisition
Related words (186)
Determiner(1 words)
most copying
mousenabnailnicknightwalknipnip uppadpalmpartakepeculatepennyworthpilferpillagepinchpirateplagiarizeplunderpoachpocket
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possessprigprowlpurloinpurloiningpussyfootreceiveriflerip-offrobrobberyrun away withrustlescrabblescramblescroungeseizeshadowshanghaishirkshopliftsidlesimulateskulkslideslinkslipslitherslysnakesnap upsnaresnatchsneaksnitchstalksteal alongstealagestealingswindleswipetaketake awaytake by assaulttake by stormtake hold oftake ontake overtake possessiontheftthievethieverythievingtiptippytoetiptoetouchusurpvulturewalk off withwhip upwormworm along
Noun(46 words)
Related word relations
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More general
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
More specific
15 entriesCollocations
11 entriesa stealreal stealsteal a basesteal a glancesteal awaysteal of a lifetimesteal of the centurysteal of the daysteal someone's ideasteal the showsteal time
Inflections
4 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
265 translations across 155 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- steel verb (to illegally take possession of)
Aklanon
1 entries- takaw verb (to illegally take possession of)
Albanian
1 entries- vjedh verb (to illegally take possession of)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κλέπτω verb (to illegally take possession of)
Andi
1 entries- бекъашду verb (to illegally take possession of)
Ao
1 entries- auya (Chungli) verb (to illegally take possession of)
Arabic
4 entries- باق verb (to illegally take possession of)
- سرق verb (to illegally take possession of)
- سرق verb (to illegally take possession of)
- سَرَقَ verb (to illegally take possession of)
Armenian
1 entries- գողանալ verb (to illegally take possession of)
Aromanian
1 entries- fur verb (to illegally take possession of)
Assamese
1 entries- চুৰ কৰ verb (to illegally take possession of)
Asturian
1 entries- robar verb (to illegally take possession of)
Avar
1 entries- бикъизе verb (to illegally take possession of)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- oğurlamaq verb (to illegally take possession of)
Bangi
1 entries- yiba verb (to illegally take possession of)
Basque
2 entries- ebatsi verb (to illegally take possession of)
- lapurtu verb (to illegally take possession of)
Belarusian
2 entries- кра́сці verb (to illegally take possession of)
- скра́сці verb (to illegally take possession of)
Bengali
1 entries- চুরি করা verb (to illegally take possession of)
Big Nambas
1 entries- iv'ənah verb (to illegally take possession of)
Borôro
1 entries- iwogu verb (to illegally take possession of)
Bulgarian
1 entries- крада́ verb (to illegally take possession of)
Burmese
2 entries- ခိုး verb (to illegally take possession of)
- ဗုန်း verb (to illegally take possession of)
Catalan
1 entries- robar verb (to illegally take possession of)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- دزین verb (to illegally take possession of)
Chichewa
1 entries- kubá verb (to illegally take possession of)
Chickasaw
4 entries- aahonkopa verb (to illegally take possession of)
- honkopa verb (to illegally take possession of)
- imaahonkopa verb (to illegally take possession of)
- i̠honkopa verb (to illegally take possession of)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 偷 verb (to illegally take possession of)
- 偷嘢 verb (to illegally take possession of)
- 盜 /盗 verb (to illegally take possession of)
- 盜竊 /盗窃 verb (to illegally take possession of)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 偷 verb (to illegally take possession of)
- 盜 /盗 verb (to illegally take possession of)
- 盜竊 /盗窃 verb (to illegally take possession of)
Church Slavic
1 entries- красти verb (to illegally take possession of)
Chuvash
1 entries- вӑрла verb (to illegally take possession of)
Cornish
1 entries- ladra verb (to illegally take possession of)
Czech
2 entries- krást verb (to illegally take possession of)
- ukrást verb (to illegally take possession of)
Danish
1 entries- stjæle verb (to illegally take possession of)
Dutch
4 entries- gappen verb (to illegally take possession of)
- jatten verb (to illegally take possession of)
- ontvreemden verb (to illegally take possession of)
- stelen verb (to illegally take possession of)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- авалткалаш verb (to illegally take possession of)
Egyptian
1 entries- i-TA-A-D51:D40 verb (to illegally take possession of)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝteli verb (to illegally take possession of)
Estonian
1 entries- varastama verb (to illegally take possession of)
Faroese
2 entries- skáka verb (to illegally take possession of)
- stjala verb (to illegally take possession of)
Finnish
2 entries- ryövätä verb (to illegally take possession of)
- varastaa verb (to illegally take possession of)
French
1 entries- voler verb (to illegally take possession of)
Gagauz
1 entries- çalmaa verb (to illegally take possession of)
Galician
1 entries- roubar verb (to illegally take possession of)
Georgian
1 entries- მოპარვა verb (to illegally take possession of)
German
4 entries- entwenden verb (to illegally take possession of)
- klauen verb (to illegally take possession of)
- mopsen verb (to illegally take possession of)
- stehlen verb (to illegally take possession of)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐌰𐌽 verb (to illegally take possession of)
- 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 verb (to illegally take possession of)
Greek
1 entries- κλέβω verb (to illegally take possession of)
Greenlandic
1 entries- tillippoq verb (to illegally take possession of)
Hebrew
2 entries- גָּזַל verb (to illegally take possession of)
- גָּנַב verb (to illegally take possession of)
Higaonon
1 entries- takaw verb (to illegally take possession of)
Hindi
1 entries- चुराना verb (to illegally take possession of)
Hungarian
1 entries- lop verb (to illegally take possession of)
Icelandic
2 entries- hnupla verb (to illegally take possession of)
- stela verb (to illegally take possession of)
Indonesian
1 entries- mencuri verb (to illegally take possession of)
Ingrian
1 entries- varastaa verb (to illegally take possession of)
Irish
1 entries- goid verb (to illegally take possession of)
Istro-Romanian
1 entries- furå verb (to illegally take possession of)
Italian
3 entries- derubare verb (to illegally take possession of)
- fregare verb (to illegally take possession of)
- rubare verb (to illegally take possession of)
Japanese
1 entries- 盗む verb (to illegally take possession of)
Javanese
1 entries- nyolong verb (to illegally take possession of)
Judeo-Italian
1 entries- גנביר verb (to illegally take possession of)
Kabuverdianu
2 entries- rabata verb (to illegally take possession of)
- rebatá verb (to illegally take possession of)
Kazakh
1 entries- ұрлау verb (to illegally take possession of)
Khmer
3 entries- គៃ verb (to illegally take possession of)
- ឆ្មក់ verb (to illegally take possession of)
- លួច verb (to illegally take possession of)
Kituba
2 entries- kuyiba verb (to illegally take possession of)
- yiba verb (to illegally take possession of)
Korean
1 entries- 훔치다 verb (to illegally take possession of)
Krio
1 entries- tif verb (to illegally take possession of)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- уурдап алуу verb (to illegally take possession of)
- уурдоо verb (to illegally take possession of)
Lao
4 entries- ຍາດ verb (to illegally take possession of)
- ລັກ verb (to illegally take possession of)
- ລັກສົກ verb (to illegally take possession of)
- ສົກ verb (to illegally take possession of)
Latgalian
1 entries- zagt verb (to illegally take possession of)
Latin
2 entries- clepō verb (to illegally take possession of)
- fūror verb (to illegally take possession of)
Latvian
1 entries- zagt verb (to illegally take possession of)
Lingala
3 entries- iba verb (to illegally take possession of)
- koyíba verb (to illegally take possession of)
- yiba verb (to illegally take possession of)
Lithuanian
1 entries- vogti verb (to illegally take possession of)
Lombard
2 entries- róbà verb (to illegally take possession of)
- rübà verb (to illegally take possession of)
Low German
1 entries- stehlen verb (to illegally take possession of)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- kšadnuś verb (to illegally take possession of)
Luxembourgish
4 entries- klauen verb (to illegally take possession of)
- schuppen verb (to illegally take possession of)
- stielen verb (to illegally take possession of)
- zoppen verb (to illegally take possession of)
Lü
1 entries- ᦟᧅ verb (to illegally take possession of)
Macedonian
1 entries- краде verb (to illegally take possession of)
Malawi Lomwe
1 entries- wiiya verb (to illegally take possession of)
Malay
1 entries- curi verb (to illegally take possession of)
Maltese
1 entries- seraq verb (to illegally take possession of)
Mansaka
1 entries- takaw verb (to illegally take possession of)
Mapudungun
1 entries- weñen verb (to illegally take possession of)
Middle English
1 entries- stelen verb (to illegally take possession of)
Mongolian
2 entries- хулгай хийх verb (to illegally take possession of)
- хулгайлах verb (to illegally take possession of)
Mwani
1 entries- kwiwa verb (to illegally take possession of)
Māori
4 entries- kaiā verb (to illegally take possession of)
- keiā verb (to illegally take possession of)
- tāhae verb (to illegally take possession of)
- whānako verb (to illegally take possession of)
Nepali
1 entries- चोर्नु verb (to illegally take possession of)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- uhiɓa verb (to illegally take possession of)
Ngombe (Congo)
1 entries- iba verb (to illegally take possession of)
Nigerian Pidgin
1 entries- tiff verb (to illegally take possession of)
Norman
1 entries- voler verb (to illegally take possession of)
North Frisian
1 entries- steel verb (to illegally take possession of)
Northern Altai
1 entries- оорлайарга verb (to illegally take possession of)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- dizî kirin verb (to illegally take possession of)
- dizîn verb (to illegally take possession of)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- stjele verb (to illegally take possession of)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- stela verb (to illegally take possession of)
Occitan
2 entries- panar verb (to illegally take possession of)
- raubar verb (to illegally take possession of)
Odia
1 entries- ଚୋରାଇବା verb (to illegally take possession of)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- красти verb (to illegally take possession of)
Old English
1 entries- stelan verb (to illegally take possession of)
Old Javanese
1 entries- coloṅ verb (to illegally take possession of)
Old Tupi
2 entries- mondarõ verb (to illegally take possession of)
- mondá verb (to illegally take possession of)
Oromo
1 entries- hatuu verb (to illegally take possession of)
Ossetian
1 entries- давын verb (to illegally take possession of)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- خرسزلامق verb (to illegally take possession of)
- چالمق verb (to illegally take possession of)
Paiwan
1 entries- tsakau verb (to illegally take possession of)
Pashto
1 entries- تروړل verb (to illegally take possession of)
Persian
1 entries- دزدیدن verb (to illegally take possession of)
Polish
4 entries- buchnąć verb (to illegally take possession of)
- capnąć verb (to illegally take possession of)
- chapnąć verb (to illegally take possession of)
- erbnąć verb (to illegally take possession of)
Portuguese
2 entries- furtar verb (to illegally take possession of)
- roubar verb (to illegally take possession of)
Quechua
2 entries- suwai verb (to illegally take possession of)
- suway verb (to illegally take possession of)
Romanian
1 entries- fura verb (to illegally take possession of)
Romansch
1 entries- engular verb (to illegally take possession of)
Russian
4 entries- ворова́ть verb (to illegally take possession of)
- красть verb (to illegally take possession of)
- сви́стнуть verb (to illegally take possession of)
- сворова́ть verb (to illegally take possession of)
Sanskrit
2 entries- चोरयति verb (to illegally take possession of)
- स्तेनयति verb (to illegally take possession of)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- goid verb (to illegally take possession of)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- krasti verb (to illegally take possession of)
- красти verb (to illegally take possession of)
Sinhalese
1 entries- හොරකම් කරනවා verb (to illegally take possession of)
Slovak
2 entries- kradnúť verb (to illegally take possession of)
- ukradnúť verb (to illegally take possession of)
Slovene
2 entries- krasti verb (to illegally take possession of)
- ukrasti verb (to illegally take possession of)
Somali
1 entries- xadid verb (to illegally take possession of)
Sotho
1 entries- utswa verb (to illegally take possession of)
Southern Altai
1 entries- уурдаар verb (to illegally take possession of)
Spanish
4 entries- fachar verb (to illegally take possession of)
- furtar (disused) verb (to illegally take possession of)
- hurtar verb (to illegally take possession of)
- percollar verb (to illegally take possession of)
Sundanese
1 entries- colong verb (to illegally take possession of)
Swedish
4 entries- baxa verb (to illegally take possession of)
- beta verb (to illegally take possession of)
- knycka verb (to illegally take possession of)
- sno verb (to illegally take possession of)
Tagalog
1 entries- magnakaw verb (to illegally take possession of)
Tajik
2 entries- дуздидан verb (to illegally take possession of)
- дуздӣ кардан verb (to illegally take possession of)
Tamil
1 entries- திருடு verb (to illegally take possession of)
Tatar
1 entries- урларга verb (to illegally take possession of)
Tausug
1 entries- takaw verb (to illegally take possession of)
Telugu
1 entries- దొంగిలించు verb (to illegally take possession of)
Tetum
2 entries- hana'o verb (to illegally take possession of)
- na'ok verb (to illegally take possession of)
Thai
2 entries- ขโมย verb (to illegally take possession of)
- ลัก verb (to illegally take possession of)
Tibetan
1 entries- རྐུ verb (to illegally take possession of)
Tocharian B
1 entries- kälyp- verb (to illegally take possession of)
Turkish
1 entries- çalmak verb (to illegally take possession of)
Turkmen
1 entries- ogurlamak verb (to illegally take possession of)
Tuvan
2 entries- оорлаар verb (to illegally take possession of)
- оорлап алыр verb (to illegally take possession of)
Ukrainian
4 entries- кра́сти verb (to illegally take possession of)
- поцу́пити verb (to illegally take possession of)
- сви́снути verb (to illegally take possession of)
- спи́здити verb (to illegally take possession of)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- kradnyć verb (to illegally take possession of)
Urdu
1 entries- چرانا verb (to illegally take possession of)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئوغرىلىماق verb (to illegally take possession of)
Uzbek
1 entries- oʻgʻirlamoq verb (to illegally take possession of)
Vietnamese
3 entries- chôm verb (to illegally take possession of)
- trộm verb (to illegally take possession of)
- ăn cắp verb (to illegally take possession of)
Volapük
1 entries- tifön verb (to illegally take possession of)
Walloon
3 entries- haper verb (to illegally take possession of)
- scroter verb (to illegally take possession of)
- voler verb (to illegally take possession of)
Welsh
1 entries- dwyn verb (to illegally take possession of)
Western Bukidnon Manobo
1 entries- takew verb (to illegally take possession of)
White Hmong
1 entries- nyiag verb (to illegally take possession of)
Yiddish
2 entries- אַוועקגנבֿענען verb (to illegally take possession of)
- גנבֿענען verb (to illegally take possession of)
Zazaki
4 entries- tırahen verb (to illegally take possession of)
- tırayen verb (to illegally take possession of)
- tırıten verb (to illegally take possession of)
- tırıyen verb (to illegally take possession of)
Zhuang
2 entries- caeg verb (to illegally take possession of)
- raeg verb (to illegally take possession of)
Sample sentences
38 total sentences available.
Hunger drove him to steal.
Source: tatoeba (18161)
A thief broke into the house to steal the money.
Source: tatoeba (19214)
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.
Source: tatoeba (21495)
Showing 4 of 38 available sentences.