thieve

thieve
v
1. steal, rob, pilfer, purloin, finger, filch, Inf. snitch, cabbage, abstract, Chiefly Brit. prig, Euph. borrow; peculate, embezzle, misappropriate; shoplift, Sl. boost, walk off or away with; burglarize, burgle, break in; All Sl. heist, pinch, hook, swipe, hustle, rip off, frisk, crook, cop, lift.
2. appropriate, expropriate, arrogate, usurp; commandeer, hijack, skyjack; pirate, plagiarize, copy, Inf. lift, Inf. crib, forge; counterfeit, Brit. Inf. coin.
3.(usu. of persons) abduct, kidnap, Sl. snatch, make off with, carry off, rape, seize; (usu. in reference to military service) impress, press, conscript, Naut. shanghai, crimp.
4. swindle, defraud, cheat, fleece, Inf. flimflam, rook, bilk, Inf. welsh, Archaic. chouse, Inf. do out of, Inf gyp. Inf bunko, Inf. diddle, Inf. take, Inf. take [s.o.] for a ride, take [s.o.] to the cleaners, Sl. pluck, Sl. chisel, Sl. clip.
5. victimize, take in, take advantage of, Inf. euchre out of, put across or over on, foist, palm off on, Sl. con, Sl. screw, Sl. bag.
6. plunder, despoil, spoliate, pillage, ravage, harry, ransack, sack, loot, gut, fleece, strip, rifle; pirate, freeboot, buccaneer, privateer, filibuster.
7. poach, deerjack; smuggle, bootleg, Inf. sneak [s.t.] in.
8. mooch, sponge, scrounge, freeload.

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