Topic: CRIME
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| Language: | Old English |
| Origin: | stelan |
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steal1 S3 W3
past tense stole past participle stolen
past tense stole past participle stolen1 to take something that belongs to someone else : Boys broke into a shop and stole £45 in cash.
take something
[intransitive and transitive]SCCBoys broke into a shop and stole £45 in cash.2 to use someone else's ideas without getting permission or without admitting that they are not your own ideas [= pinch]: Inventors know that someone is always going to try to steal their designs.
use ideas
[intransitive and transitive]Inventors know that someone is always going to try to steal their designs. steal something from somebody A well-known scientist was accused of stealing his former student's ideas.
A well-known scientist was accused of stealing his former student's ideas.3 to move quietly without anyone noticing you [= creep]
move somewhere
[intransitive always + adverb/preposition]4 to do something, especially when you are acting in a play, that makes people pay more attention to you than to other people : Elwood stole the show with a marvellous performance.
steal the show/limelight/scene
Elwood stole the show with a marvellous performance.6
sport
a) [intransitive and transitive]DSB to run to the next base before someone hits the ball in the sport of baseball
b) [transitive] to suddenly take control of the ball, puck etc, when the other team had previously had control of it, for example in basketball or ice hockey :
8 to gain an advantage over someone by doing something that they had planned to do before them : He was afraid another scholar was going to steal a march on him and publish first.
steal a march on somebody
He was afraid another scholar was going to steal a march on him and publish first.9 to get the success and praise someone else should have got, by doing what they had intended to do
