The act of taking something from someone unlawfully.
synonyms: larceny, stealing, thievery, thieving.
Roget 545:
deception;
falseness
etc.
544;
untruth
etc.
546;
imposition,
imposture;
fraud,
deceit,
guile;
fraudulence,
fraudulency†;
covin†;
knavery
etc.
(cunning)
702;
misrepresentation
etc.
(falsehood)
544;
bluff;
straw-bail,
straw bid [U.S.];
spoof [Slang].
delusion,
gullery†;
juggling,
jugglery†;
slight of hand,
legerdemain;
prestigiation†,
prestidigitation;
magic
etc.
992;
conjuring,
conjuration;
hocus-pocus,
escamoterie†,
jockeyship†;
trickery,
coggery†,
chicanery;
supercherie†,
cozenage†,
circumvention,
ingannation†,
collusion;
treachery
etc.
940;
practical joke.
trick,
cheat,
wile,
blind,
feint,
plant,
bubble,
fetch,
catch,
chicane,
juggle,
reach,
hocus,
bite;
card sharping,
stacked deck,
loaded dice,
quick shuffle,
double dealing,
dealing seconds,
dealing from the bottom of the deck;
artful dodge,
swindle;
tricks upon travelers;
stratagem
etc.
(artifice)
702;
confidence trick,
fake,
hoax;
theft
etc.
791;
ballot-box stuffing [U.S.],
barney [Slang];
brace game [Slang],
bunko game,
drop game [Slang],
gum game [U.S.],
panel game [U.S.],
shell game,
thimblerig,
skin game [U.S.].
snare,
trap,
pitfall,
decoy,
gin;
springe†,
springle†;
noose,
hoot;
bait,
decoy-duck,
tub to the whale,
baited trap,
guet-a-pens;
cobweb,
net,
meshes,
toils,
mouse trap,
birdlime;
dionaea†,
Venus's flytrap†;
ambush
etc.
530;
trapdoor,
sliding panel,
false bottom;
spring-net,
spring net,
spring gun,
mask,
masked battery;
mine;
flytrap†;
green goods [U.S.];
panel house.
Cornish hug;
wolf in sheep's clothing
etc.
(deceiver)
548;
disguise,
disguisement†;
false colors,
masquerade,
mummery,
borrowed plumes;
pattes de velours [Fr.].
mockery
etc.
(imitation)
19;
copy
etc.
21;
counterfeit,
sham,
make-believe,
forgery,
fraud;
lie
etc.
546;
a delusion a mockery and a snare"
[Denman],
hollow mockery.
whited sepulcher,
painted sepulcher;
tinsel;
paste,
junk jewelry,
costume jewelry,
false jewelry,
synthetic jewels;
scagliola†,
ormolu,
German silver,
albata†,
paktong†,
white metal,
Britannia metal,
paint;
veneer;
jerry building;
man of straw.
illusion
etc.
(error)
495;
ignis fatuus [Lat.]
etc.
423;
mirage
etc.
443.
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Roget 789:
taking
etc.
v.;
reception
etc.
(taking in)
296;
deglutition
etc.
(taking food)
298;
appropriation,
prehension,
prensation†;
capture,
caption;
apprehension,
deprehension†;
abreption†,
seizure,
expropriation,
abduction,
ablation;
subtraction,
withdrawal
etc.
38;
abstraction,
ademption†;
adrolepsy†.
dispossession;
deprivation,
deprivement†;
bereavement;
divestment;
disherison†;
distraint,
distress;
sequestration,
confiscation;
eviction
etc.
297.
rapacity,
rapaciousness,
extortion,
vampirism;
theft
etc.
791.
resumption;
reprise,
reprisal;
recovery
etc.
775.
clutch,
swoop,
wrench;
grip
etc.
(retention)
781;
haul,
take,
catch;
scramble.
taker,
captor.
[Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate]
subduction [Geol.].
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Roget 791:
stealing
etc.
v.;
theft,
thievery,
latrociny†,
direption†;
abstraction,
appropriation;
plagiary,
plagiarism;
autoplagiarism†;
latrocinium†.
spoliation,
plunder,
pillage;
sack,
sackage†;
rapine,
brigandage,
foray,
razzia†,
rape,
depredation,
raid;
blackmail.
piracy,
privateering,
buccaneering;
license to plunder,
letters of marque,
letters of mark and reprisal.
filibustering,
filibusterism†;
burglary;
housebreaking;
badger game [Slang].
robbery,
highway robbery,
hold-up [U.S.],
mugging.
peculation,
embezzlement;
fraud
etc.
545;
larceny,
petty larceny,
grand larceny,
shoplifting.
thievishness,
rapacity,
kleptomania,
Alsatia†,
den of Cacus,
den of thieves.
blackmail,
extortion,
shakedown,
Black Hand [U.S.].
[person who commits theft]
thief
etc.
792.
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Dutch: dieverij, diefstal
Polish: przywłaszczenie