steal – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to steal away
Participle: stolen away
Gerund: stealing away

Cognates

See the 9 cognates of steal

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	steal away
we	Let's steal away
you	steal away

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to steal

snitch

steal

prig

to take something that does not belong to one

abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with

To plunder

gilravage

to rob

heave

to cut a purse

nip

quickly and quietly

snitch

to move stealthily

creep, hake, shug, skulk, slink, slive, sneak, tiptoe

rob

burglarize, thieve, filch, loot, pilfer, swindle, plunder, embezzle

lure

allure, draw, gain, win

Antonyms

to take something that does not belong to one

buy, earn, purchase, receive, return

to receive goods or services in exchange for money

barter, pay, sell, buy

to give money, or other compensation, in exchange for goods or services

buy, default, discharge, earn, levant, repudiate, pay, waive, welsh

lure

repel, repulse, disgust, revolt

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. O.E. stelan "to commit a theft" (class IV strong verb; past tense stæl, pp. stolen), from P.Gmc. *stelanan (cf. O.S. stelan, O.N., O.Fris. stela, Du. stelen, O.H.G. stelan, Ger. stehlen, Goth. stilan), of unknown origin. Most IE words for steal have roots in notions of "hide," "carry off," or "collect, heap up." Attested as a verb of stealthy motion from c.1300 (e.g. to steal away, c.1369); of glances, sighs, etc., from 1586. The noun meaning "a bargain" is Amer.Eng. colloquial attested by 1942; baseball sense of "a stolen base" is from 1867. To steal (someone) blind first recorded 1974.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Germanic *stelaną
4. Proto-West Germanic *stelan
5. Old English stelan
6. Middle English stelen
7. English steal
8. Inherited from Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan, from Proto-West Germanic *stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelaną.
9. Cognate with Bavarian stöhn (“to steal”), Dutch stelen (“to steal”), German and Low German stehlen (“to steal”), Luxembourgish stielen (“to steal”), Danish stjæle (“to steal”), Faroese stjala (“to steal”), Icelandic stela (“to steal”), Norwegian Bokmål stjele (“to steal”), Norwegian Nynorsk stela, stele (“to steal”), Swedish stjäla (“to steal”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 (stilan, “to steal”). For the meaning development compare with Russian красть (krastʹ, “to steal”) and Russian кра́сться (krástʹsja, “to stalk, to prowl, to slink”).
10. etymology notes
11. Proposed etymologies beyond Germanic are numerous and include
12. * Proto-Indo-European *ster-: compare Welsh herw (“theft, raid”), Ancient Greek στερέω (steréō, “to deprive of”)
13. * Proto-Indo-European *stel(H)- (“to stretch”): compare Albanian pë/mbështjell (“to confuse, mess up, mix, wrap up”), Old Church Slavonic стєлѭ (steljǫ, “I spread out (bed, roof)”), Ancient Greek τηλία (tēlía, “playing table”)
14. * Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (“to sneak”): compare Sanskrit त्सरति (tsárati, “creep, sneak up on”) and other forms under Pokorny 5. *sel- "schleichen, kriechen" See: Dutch 'stelen', Luxembourgish 'stielen', Danish 'stjæle', Faroese 'stjala', Icelandic 'stela', Norwegian 'stjele', Norwegian, nynorsk 'stela', Swedish 'stjäla', Sanskrit 'त्सरति'.

Verbs referencing "steal"

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