stealing

stealing
n
1. robbery, theft, thievery, pilferage, pilfering, filching, Sl. swiping, Sl. hustling, Sl. copping; peculation, embezzlement, Law. defalcation, misappropriation; shoplifting, palming, Sl. boosting; Psychol. kleptomania; smuggling, bootlegging; burglary, breaking and entering, Law. larceny, safe-cracking; purse-snatching, U.S. Inf. mugging, Sl. jumping.
2. expropriation, appropriation, arrogation, usurpation, accroachment, assumption; plagiarism, copying, Inf. cribbing, Inf. lifting; dispossession, deprivation, deprival, divestiture, bereavement.
3. commandeering, hijacking, skyjacking, air or sky piracy; (usu. of persons) kidnapping, capture, seizure, rape, impressment, conscription, manstealing, child-stealing; (all of animals) poaching, deerjacking, pet-napping, dognapping, (of cattle) rustling.
4. stealings
loot, booty. See plunder(def. 5).

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